Twitter launching official Tweet buttons this week (update: they're here!)

If you've looked at the internet in the past few years, you've undoubtedly become pretty accustomed to seeing all manner of "Tweet this!" or "Add to Twitter" buttons from services like TweetMeme. Well, Twitter's apparently decided to get in on that action themselves with official buttons, and Mashable's got the confidential document's to prove it. In the slideshow (part of which you see above) the full, simple string of code for the buttons seems to be revealed, as well as their three relatively innocuous and somewhat predictable designs. We've got a feeling you'll be seeing these absolutely everywhere any day now, but hit the source link to see the full deck of slides.

Update: Well, that was quick -- Twitter's dropped the official buttons, and announced a partnership with TweetMeme at the same time. You can see the buttons in action on this post right now, and hit up the Coverage link for the official announcement of Twitter's blog.

[TheRealCJ Posted Aug 11th 2010 7:52PM]

Great!

Just a few questions though:

1. Twitter need to die
2. Why was my last question not a question?

[AdamSpruijt Posted Aug 11th 2010 7:53PM]

@TheRealCJ
Don't use it if you don't like it.

[jonbrewer Posted Aug 11th 2010 7:59PM]

@TheRealCJ

Twitter has actually given me more business, and allowed me to network with many more people than I would have otherwise. Not all of us tweet about what we ate for breakfast.

[pankomputerek Posted Aug 11th 2010 7:53PM]

Looking Cool......
Tweet me. I mean this...

[Poppajonzz Posted Aug 11th 2010 7:54PM]

And in the bottom left corner you'll see the famous last words, "subject to NDA". Lol...

[Seakip Posted Aug 11th 2010 7:54PM]

Good to know.

[VetteDude Posted Aug 11th 2010 7:56PM]

Not it is even easier to tweet my twitter.

[VetteDude Posted Aug 11th 2010 7:56PM]

@VetteDude Crap, *now*

[AlienSix Posted Aug 11th 2010 7:57PM]

Finally, how many 3 party options have we had?

[iKid Posted Aug 11th 2010 8:09PM]

Meh.

[Orion Posted Aug 11th 2010 8:13PM]

twitter是什么啊？我怎么从来不知道有这么个网站？

[bcd Posted Aug 11th 2010 9:39PM]

@Orion http://chinese.engadget.com/

[mobilehavoc Posted Aug 11th 2010 8:52PM]

Why is this on Engadget classic and not Alt? Or better yet, nowhere.

[michaspi Posted Aug 11th 2010 8:53PM]

>Social networking

No.

[rocker182 Posted Aug 12th 2010 12:30AM]

I use twitter its great for random brain fart

[tomretterbush Posted Aug 12th 2010 1:52AM]

What in God's name took them so long? What have they been waiting for? They should have had it out a long time ago.

They keep relying on third party developers, when in reality they don't even like a person using them. For example, you can get your Twitter account suspended for "aggressive following/unfollowing" and the only way they will lift the suspension is if you no longer use any auto follow/unfollow applications.

Well if they don't want a person to use them, why do they allow these applications to connect to them?

[bryoneill11 Posted Aug 12th 2010 12:22PM]

Someone could please explain me what the hell is twitter? I know is just a status thing... like the facebook status... but why is so popular?? Why in the world I want to know what is doing another person?

[michaspi Posted Aug 13th 2010 4:02PM]

@bryoneill11:
Tweets are glorified away messages and the AOL keywords of the this decade.

[Dell Discount Posted Aug 15th 2010 4:02PM]

Hate Twitter! >;-