I was one of the lucky few South Africans that had access to #NewTwitter only a few days after it went live, and since then I have been playing around with it and discovering all sorts of new “hidden” features.

The #NewTwitter was created with ease of use in mind, no more navigating away from your main timeline to view images or videos, or going from page to page to follow a conversation between Twitter users, everything are now displayed on one page with the use of nifty slide out panels.

Apart from the fancy sliding panels there is a hidden features that I stumbled upon by accidentally hitting the R key on my keyboard. #NewTwitter has a handy set of keyboard shortcuts you can make use of.

After some playing around I found the above screen detailing a list of all available keyboard shortcuts for #NewTwitter. The shortcuts range from replying to tweets, retweeting, compiling new tweets, to going to certain user profiles with just the push of a button.

If you are enabled for #NewTwitter you can just press the ? key on your keyboard and it will bring up the above shortcut screen, now go test those shortcuts.

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So I guess the rumor about Twitter releasing their own Tweet buttons was true, Twitter has just released their very own set of Tweet buttons.

Twitter has teamed up with TweetMeme who’s retweet buttons has been dominating the web lately to offer the all new Tweet buttons for publishers. TweetMeme will also be switching to the new Tweet buttons soon according to a post on the official Twitter blog.

The new Tweet buttons from Twitter will allow your readers to share content with their followers directly from your webpage and even allow them to customize the message. Twitter will also shorten the URL with their very own t.co domain.

If you are interested in implementing the new Tweet button on your site visit the Tweet Button page on Twitter.

Will you be implementing the new Twitter Tweet button on your site?

For long TweetMeme ruled the world of ReTweet buttons for sites, you know those buttons next to, above or bellow articles that you use to share it with the world. Well that is about to come to an end for TweetMeme because Twitter is set to launch their own Tweet buttons for publishers.

Bellow I have embedded a Tweet button from Twitter, although it seems to embed fine, clicking on it to share the article just redirects you to a not found page.

The functionality is currently only available to certain Twitter account holders, what should happen when you click the Tweet button is that a window will pop up asking you to log into Twitter and then enables you to customise the message to send with the URL.

Rumor has it that the new Tweet buttons should be activated sometime this week. For more information about embedding the official Twitter Tweet buttons on your site see the document bellow.

For long it has been speculated as to when Facebook would get something like Twitters Retweet functionality, and the day has finally arrived. Facebook rolled out its via feature last night that lets you repost another user’s shared content.

It appears the the feature is live to everybody, you can try it out by going to a friends posted item and clicking the share link. Once you posted it, the content will appear your news feed with your a via link pointing to your friends profile.

The feature is currently only available for sharing links, you can’t share statuses at the moment.

We’ll just have to see if this takes off and is as popular as Twitter’s retweet functionality. You can follow me on Twitter here.

Just now when I logged into my Twitter account via the web I was greeted with the following screen.

I am now part of the Twitter Retweet beta group. This means I will now start to see retweets in a new way on the web. Retweets will no longer contain the RT prefix but will contain a new special icon as displayed in the screen above and a Retweeted by description below the tweet.

My tweets now also contain a new retweet link next to current reply link.

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