A few days ago I have added a Tweetmeme retweet counter to this blog. I thought I would share the process with you. The button does the same thing a Tweet This or a Google Buzz button does -share you individual posts, but with an obvious difference, it comes with a counter. The counter show a live count of how many times a post has been tweeted.
Clicking the button will tweet the containing post (in which the button is in). It won’t matter if you click it in home page, in individual/post page or in any other page, it will work all the same.
tweetmeme retweet blogger
Now let’s proceed with the tutorial:

  1. Go to Dashboard > Design > Edit HTML.
  2. Back up your template.
  3. Tick the  Expand Widget Templates check box on top right of the HTML window.
  4. Look for this code in your HTML:
    5. <data:post.body/>
  5. Paste the following codes immediately below (after) it:
    6. <!-- Tweetmeme retweet button Start -->
<div style='float:left;padding:5px;'>
<script type='text/javascript'>
tweetmeme_url = '<data:post.url/>'; 
tweetmeme_style = 'BUTTON_TYPE'; 
tweetmeme_source = 'TWITTER_USERNAME'; 
</script>
<script src='http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js' type='text/javascript'/>
</div>
<!-- Tweetmeme retweet button End -->
  6.  Configure buttons
    • Choose your preferred button type by replacing BUTTON_TYPE (in line 5) with the corresponding code below.



      Retweet button Code
      retweet button big leave blank or delete line altogether
      retweet button compact compact
    • Replace TWITTER_USERNAME in line 6 with your own Twitter username.
  7. Preview, you should see the button appear at the end each post.
  8. If you like what you see then Save.
  9. Enjoy!