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How to let users post links/images to Facebook, Twitter, Buzz etc... from a Rails based website?

I'd like to offer users the ability to post images / links to articles from my web application to Facebook, Twitter, Buzz and any other social network.

A perfect example of the functionality I'm trying to replicate is mashable.com ... where each social network is represented by an icon that a) shows the number of shares AND b) allows users to click on it to post to that specific network.

Don't know if it matters ... but the site is built using RoR.

Thanks

Solution

  • Here are the links for adding those social media buttons to your site:

    Facebook: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Facebook_Share

    Twitter: http://help.tweetmeme.com/2009/04/06/tweetmeme-button/

    Buzz: http://www.google.com/buzz/api/admin/configPostWidget