Fix Your TweetMeMe Retweet Button Settings

One of the most widely used WordPress plugins on the planet is used for retweeting blog posts directly into your Twitter stream, the plugin with the most clout when it comes to widespread use is TweetMeMe. There is not a chance that you surf blogs on a daily basis and your not exposed to any of the retweet chicklets or buttons embeded into some of the blog posts you read, crazy as it might seem I do not currently use the TweetMeMe WordPress Plugin.

One thing that has really started to get on my nerves with bloggers that use this plugin is that they don’t take the proper time to go through all of the settings to ensure that everything is setup properly, instead they active the plugin and see the sexy retweet button and think the job is finished. Wrong, the installation is not finished and if you do not finish the setup properly you WILL be missing out on key networking opportunities with the people that read your blog and are kind enough to retweet your articles.

Installing the TweetMeMe WordPress plugin is as easy as one, two and three but if your looking to interact and network with the people that retweet your posts on Twitter than your going to need to fill out one very important part of the TweetMeMe settings so that you actually know when someone retweets your message.

Now the screen shot above is hardly the largest and most clear screen shot on the planet but it will get the job done for making this setting right so that you know exactly who retweets your post, I mean it would be nice to at least thank them for retweeting your post wouldn’t it? Here’s what you need to do.

How to Edit your TweetMeMe Plugin Settings

1. After you install the plugin and active the plugin you will see “TweetMeMe” in your admin toolbar, click it.
2. Scroll down to the section that says “Source” in the settings view (screen shot above)
3. This area is blank by default, leaving it blank will place @tweetmeme as the default @ reply for the retweeted message. Put your Twitter username in this field, do not include the @ symbol.
4. Save your changes

Incomplete Setup of TweetMeMe retweet output result

Making the simple changes above will ensure that you get the retweet message when someone takes the time to retweet your post, in the event you do not make those changes those replies and retweets are sent to @tweetmeme and it’s safe to say they are going to be a little too busy to thank your readers for retweeting your post.

In most cases I want the blogger that wrote the article to know that I retweeted it for them and I expect a thank you, if I don’t fill out the settings completley that means I would have to. Now ask yourself how many of your surfers and bloggers that read your blog will actually be nice enough to manually change the Twitter username in the retweet before sending it, safe to say it won’t be many.

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