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    Twitter's Interactive 'Web Intents' Turn Your Site Into A Lightweight Twitter Client

    Alexia Tsotsis

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    Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in... → Learn More

    Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
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    Twitter has just released Web Intents, a pretty snazzy API tool that allows site publishers to provide users with the functionality of Twitter follows, retweets, replies and favorites without forcing them to leave their own sites. Those interested can invoke an Intent by embedding a line of Javascript and HTML, without having build an OAuth app in order to attach these functions.

    From the Twitter Developer blog:

    “Today we’re releasing a simple new addition to the API called Web Intents that makes it possible to make Tweets that you display on the web interactive. Web Intents provide popup optimized flows for all the ways you interact with Tweets and users on Twitter: Tweet, Reply, Retweet, Favorite, and Follow. The new tool makes it possible for users to interact with Twitter content in the context of your site, without leaving the page or having to authorize a new app just for the interaction. Web intents are mobile friendly and easy to implement.”

    Much to my great joy, Web Intents will also play nice with WordPress’ Blackbird Pie, as all tweets embedded with Blackbird Pie will retroactively embue all tweets with the functionality. (Try it out with the tweets above).

    You can test out all the different functions of the Web Intents below:

    Reply

    Retweet

    Favorite

    Follow

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