Apr 8, 2011 by Matt | Posted in Social Media
Twitter recently launched a new feature for integrating their service into your website. Web Intents automagically converts links to specific URLs into interactive dialogs, using the same widgets.js dependency as the retweet widget.
You can create links to retweet, reply to or favorite messages, as well as to follow or display a user.
As an example:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<a href="http://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=53796378291355649">Retweet</a>
More fun things for developers and web designers to play with. And you can now get official logos and UI sprites as well.
Twitter Web Intents [Twitter Developers]
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Twitter recently launched a new feature for integrating their service into your website. Web Intents automagically converts links to specific URLs into interactive dialogs, using the same 
