Twittley Revamped and Looking Better

4 November, 2009 - 07:00 AM - 12 Comments

There are a few loyal bloggers who love using Twittley which is a a Digg type social submission site that will retweet articles on Twitter and keep track of them. It differs from TweetMeme in the way it ranks retweets based on more than just numbers, it uses metrics like the quality of the “twitter user” who retweets and “Karma” metric to value the articles submitted to the site. I have enjoyed Twittley myself because I can get my own articles on the front page occasionally with a much lower number of retweets than TweetMeme which means more exposure for my articles. I also know several of bloggers who leverage twittley and it is a good place to read some of my favorite bloggers articles.

Twittley 2.0 is about to be released soon and only a handful of bloggers received an early version of the 2.0, included is most notable the new button styles which are much nicer and streamlined, see for yourself:

In addition they have several bug fixes so the Twittley button gracefully handles “special” characters that exist in the blog title and name, often when using dashes in the blog name or some characters like colons, it would cause the previous Twittley version to display a SQL database error instead of allowing you to retweet.

I for one am impressed and I do leave both buttons on my site, because some readers still prefer to use TweetMeme, so I give the option for either. Once Twittley becomes a little more widespread I probably will exclusively use Twittley in the future.

-Dragon Blogger

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ileane

Hi DragonBlogger,

Can I use Twittley on my Blogger blog or is it for WordPress only?

Thanks.@Ileane

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dragonblogger

Just go to this page on Twittley, they have to code so you can integrate twittley button with any webpage or site. http://twittley.com/twittley-button.php

jan geronimo

Justin, when I tweeted this post using the Tweetmeme button this appeared on my time line: RT @tweetmeme http://bit.ly/3yA8M8

Pretty uninteresting and very obscure. Why is that? Not even a snippet of what's the post is all about. It needs further tweaking, Justin. Please include your Twitter username while you're at it. :)
.-= jan geronimoÂ´s last blog ..Read My Lips: Twitter Lists Are Meant to be Exclusionary =-.

Working on it, thanks.

I've stumbled into Twittley when I retweeted Ditesco's PG50 group blog. I'm impressed. What I don't get is how to link your blog to your Twittley account. It stumped me as usual because it asked me upload a piece of code into my blog. And of course things like that make my eyes glaze over. Ahehehe. Did you link your blog to it by adding a snippet of code?

That is only to "claim your blog" and shows that you actually own it, it isn't needed to host the twittley button and submit. You can also remove code once confirmed.

Extreme John

I might be trying Twittley again here soon, especially if my frustration witn Tweetmeme continues to grow.
.-= Extreme JohnÂ´s last blog ..Weekly Link Dump =-.

Tycoon Blogger@promote your blog

I am a big fan of Twittley as you know and I am excited about v 2.0. I really hope this takes off but I can't help notice their Alexa keeps slipping each month. BTW, I "twittleyed" this post.
.-= Tycoon Blogger@promote your blogÂ´s last blog ..Twitter Follower Management Tool â€“ Tweepi Review =-.

Thanks, wonder why your comment didn't auto approve?

Karen @ Blazing Minds

The twittley button wasn't working on my blog for a while, but it's back now, can't wait to get my hands on version 2 of the plugin.
.-= Karen @ Blazing Minds´s last blog ..How to find Complete My Album on iTunes V9 =-.

Heather Kephart

Hey, cool! I like the option to use different colors. But then again, it's nice to have the standard button used by most, so it doesn't get missed.
.-= Heather Kephart´s last blog ..This morning at the Tommyknocker compoundâ€¦ =-.