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I would like to follow up the post made about the Tweet button with a post about the Facebook Like button and the benefits of adding the button to your web site. Below is an image of what the button looks like.  If you would like to see a real world example, you will find one at The Vintage Revival  near the bottom. The Facebook Like button allows visitors to share the content of your site with people on Facebook. When a visitor clicks on the Like button, a story appears in that visitor’s friends’ News Feed with a link back to your website. As you can guess, this quickly and easily helps promote your site on one of the most popular social networks on the Internet today. By embedding code in your website (called Open Graph tags ), your page will become the equivalent of a Facebook page with a connection made on Facebook between the visitor and your web site. Your site will appear in the "Likes and Interests" section of the visitor's profile and you will have t...

Twitter has now released a new Tweet button for there service. This function was previously offered by TweetMeme's Retweet button . Similar to Facebook's Like button , the new Tweet button from Twitter allows a visitor to send a Twitter message from your site. Tweet Twitter offers a page to help you construct your Tweet Button: http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton On this page, you have the option of how your button will appear: The text that people will include from this Tweet can be customized The URL that you want linked to this Tweet The default language You can also recommend up to 2 people to follow for this Tweet button to recommend to the visitor When you have completed the customization, it's easy to insert the code into your site because Twitter will generate it for you.  Cutting and pasting the code into your site will complete the process and then you are up and running. That's it.  It's a very similar process to the Facebook Like...