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Socialtwist's Widget Puts New Twist On Social Content Sharing

Source: louisgray.com

Jan 25, 2009

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By Eric Berlin of Online Media Cultist (FriendFeed/Twitter)

When reading a blog post, it's not uncommon that you will see a "Share This!" button at the bottom that you allows you to do such things as share it with friends or to publish it on your own blog or social media profile. A new Tell-a-Friend widget, produced by SocialTwist, aims to expand on that idea by enabling distribution to such communications platforms as instant messaging services and by allowing easy selection of contacts through e-mail and social networking address books. Here's how they describe it: Unlike other sharing utilities, Tell-a-Friend stands unique to give you a single button which enables both one-to-one personal recommendations and social broadcasting. Tell-a-Friend is the only sharing widget to support Instant Messengers (chat) and personal messages to friends on social networks. That's clearly the best of word of mouth marketing rolled in one. The idea is that the widget is easily installable, highly customizable, supports more than 80 services, and comes packed with analytics ...Read the full article

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Nigelwalsh,

Jan 26, 2009

looks interesting. How does this differ from something like Ping.fm? @jasongoldberg something perhaps for S|M, both to include on this site and to be included on their list of sites?