Andy Gambles

I recently added the Tweetmeme buttons to my Posterous blogs. If you want to add Tweetmeme to your Posterous blog then take a look here.

I wondered if it was possible to take this further and include Tweetmeme within my actual email campaigns using MailChimp. I use the RSS-to-Email system within MailChimp to send subscribers updates from the ServerTastic Blog. After a bit of research it was actually much easier than I thought.

All I had to do was add the following bit of code within the RSS tags where I wanted the Tweetmeme image to appear. You will need to replace the "source" variable with your own twitter username.

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I tested this in Outlook, Gmail and on the iPhone (According to my MailChimp stats this represents 71% of my subscribers).

This is a completely new experiment for me and it will be interesting to see if this generates any increase it tweets.

Andreas Kopp asked on my ServerTastic Blog how I had integrated the Twetmeme and FaceBook Like buttons into my Posterous theme. (Just like this theme).

It is actually pretty easy. You need to edit the theme in Posterous choosing the advanced option. Then look for the {Body} tag within the code. Just above this insert the code below. Change the twitterusername to your actual twitter username.

<div style="float:left;padding:4px;">
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<fb:like href="{Permalink}" layout="button_count"></fb:like>
</div>