Developers like Tweet Button, want better analytics

04.03.2011
Developers and publishers who have adopted Twitter's say the tool is beneficial in letting their site readers and application users conveniently share links on Twitter, but that some features can be improved, including its analytics data and mobile functionality.

The Tweet Button, , is designed to be easy for developers and publishers to embed on their sites and applications so that their users can easily share and "retweet" links on Twitter right from their site and application interfaces.

"Twitter has done a great job with the button. They have given non-technical people an easy way to add tweet buttons to their page through a form, as well as giving developers means to extend and manipulate the button for more complex scenarios, along with providing developers with good documentation," said Peter Denton, co-founder and product marketing director at , a site that analyzes Twitter posts about movies and calculates an aggregate rating for each film.

"It's an easy and practical solution that [solves] pretty well the limited problem it's supposed to address," said Felipe Lavin, a front-end developer for , a Chilean strategy and design firm that created Clerk.im, a hotel management Web application. "It's easy for users and developers."

However, developers and publishers also see opportunities for improvement of the Tweet Button.

One area is the analytics data that the Tweet Button generates and makes available for developers and publishers, which some feel could be broader and more detailed, thus making the tool better for measuring the popularity and distribution of links to their content.