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Friday 9 December 2011

Facebook One-Ups Twitter With Subscribe Button That Tells Friends When You Click


Facebook Subscribe Buttons Styles
Facebook wasn’t kidding when it announcedyesterday that an embeddable button allowing people to subscribe to someone’s public updates was on the way. Today it officially released the Subscribe button, noting that when clicked “The subscribe action is also shared — allowing others to subscribe directly via the News Feed stories, and further increasing viral distribution.” This gives Facebook’s button a distinct advantage over Twitter’s, as the action of following someone through Twitter’s button doesn’t appear in the main tweet stream, only a secondary stream. A “Follow” click will probably only nab you 1 follower, but a “Subscribe” click could create a viral chain that nets you many new Subscribers.
Developers can add the button to their sites via XFBML or Iframe, and choose whether to display an author’s Subscriber count and the faces of existing subscribers. Above are the 3 available designs. The button is already live on many news sites including The Daily Beast / Newsweek, The Huffington Post, TIME.com, washingtonpost.com, and some of TechCrunch’s author drop-downs. To see it in action, click the arrows beside my name at the top of this article.
Source:http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/08/subscribe-button-twitter/

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