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Following in the footsteps of Facebook, popular microblogging site Twitter has just announced their new Twitter follow button. This gives visitors of your blog an easy way of following you and removes the need to jump out to the main Twitter site to action the follow.
You can read more on the official Twitter Follow page: twitter.com/about/resources/followbutton
Its worth noting that there’s two ways of initiating the follow button, the first and the one they push on that page uses a direct link (bad for SEO) but if you dig a little deeper into their documentation there’s also an iframe version which should help you retain maximum link juice on your pages.
<iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.html ?screen_name=twitterapi" style="width:300px; height:20px;"></iframe>
Give it a whirl!
An advantage for readers who will no longer need to leave the page and connected on twitter to register. It becomes easier to monitor the account. Thank you for the information I’m going to try.
the button is long awaited. now, launched for everyone. i think, it will be phenomenon more than facebook like button. :)