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On Thursday, Twitter released their ‘official’ tweet button. By default, it uses Twitter’s t.co URL shortening, which means it will display an excerpt of the full link in the tweet. But some folks, like our awe.sm customers (yes, I mean that both ways ), want to easily use the new official tweet button with 3rd-party tracking tools.

So, we’ve whipped up a WordPress plugin that supports awe.sm, bit.ly, tinyurl, su.pr, and digg URLs as well as some other nifty features.

Get the plugin here

Here’s the full feature list:

• Configure the placement of the button on your posts: top; bottom; top & bottom; or manual
• Choose the type of Twitter tweet button you want: vertical count; horizontal count; or no count
• Optionally use awe.sm, bit.ly, tinyurl, su.pr, or digg to shorten the links shared through the tweet button (default is Twitter’s t.co)
• Specify the via Twitter username to be included at the end of the tweet and in the recommended users to follow screen after the tweet
• Optionally add the author of a given post to the recommended users to follow screen after the tweet (requires the author to enter their Twitter username in their WP profile)
• Disable the button on Pages

Use 3rd-party URL shorteners, like awe.sm, and specify the via username.

Add the author of a given post to the recommended users to follow after the tweet.

Try it here:
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This plugin is primarily based on the excellent BackType Tweetcount plugin and I adapted part of the post author code from the also excellent Twitter Publisher plugin.

If you have any issues or feature requests, please let us know at support+tbws [at] awe.sm.