Twitter is launching their own official tweet button alongside a counter for sharing articles on websites and how many times it has been shared. Mashable have obtained documents that detail the new button and show that it could be launched as soon as this Thursday.
This button is, according to Twitter, going to be the most comprehensive counter for retweets of articles across the social network, and will directly see the death of compete with TweetMeme’s button, which is currently the most popular and most prominent as of writing. There’s a chance that the two companies have some form of deal set up that they’re yet to announce, but only time will tell.
UPDATE: It’s launched, and Twitter have said that “We’re pleased to be working closely with the good folks at TweetMeme and, from here on out, they will be pointing to the Twitter Tweet Button.”
On TweetMeme’s blog they say “We will be assisting Twitter with the technical challenges involved with the button and secondly we will be working even more closely in the future on delivering real-time curation of the Twitter Firehose. This will manifest itself in the launch of a number of new products and the first of these is being unveiled today.”
Also Twitter made an introduction video for you all to view.
Tweet Button by Twitter
