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14 years 8 months ago #13347 by rdbean
Feature Request was created by rdbean
Hi Guys,

Since you're already loading twitter's widgets JS, could you include an option for their follow button?

The variables are pretty simple. It needs the sites/admins twitter name, follow text and the option to show how many people are following them or not.

I currently have this hard coded into a clients site using this in 3.x series since it didn't have tweet me integration:
TweetFollow @TV_Agent

www.mediastars.tv/Media-Talent/Anchors-a...eporters/Amy-Carabba for example where I have that and linkedin coded into the system plugin

An upside to adding a field for the twitter ID is also that you can call it and add the "Via" option in the "tweet button"

Thoughts?

Rich
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14 years 8 months ago #13376 by alzander
Replied by alzander on topic Feature Request
Rich,
First off, 4.0.1 is out now.. should fix the social button issues from your other post, but if not, let us know.

As for the Twitter idea, I've added it to our investigation list, and agree it'd be a nice improvement. With our LinkedIn extension coming out next month, we're currently re-evaluating how we're doing the social integration in a way to make sure it's compatible with different social extensions we have (or will develop). The idea is to have 'basic' social functionality in all the extensions (or shared between them), but if you want more robust integration, similar to what we have in JFBConnect, you'd need the 'full' package. The Twitter follow button would be a basic thing I can see adding, it's just a matter now of figure out the easiest and least confusing to make everything work well together.. but that's our job :)

Hope the explanation helps a little, and definitely appreciate the suggestion!

Thanks,
Alex
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