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Dan Zarrella, the social media pro who created Tweetbacks, released yesterday a new Wordpress module which encompasses Tweetbacks and even more Twitter functionality for blogs. Called TweetSuite, this add-on brings in things such as a "ReTweet This" button for each post in the Tweetback list, as well as a Digg-style badge for blog entries.

So now, I'll have to add all these features to the Drupal Tweetbacks module.

One of the TweetSuite functions I won't have to implement, however. The Twitter module for Drupal already handles sending out a tweet whenever you create new content on a site, so anyone wanting that can use that module instead.

I just put out a new version of the Tweetbacks module I put online on Friday. The download URL is now <http://drupal.org/node/357978/release>. This new version includes support for all of the options for Dan Zarrella's Tweetbacks system, although described in slightly different terms.

Download it, and have fun!

UPDATE: Tweetbacks is now on drupal.org! It will be a little while before builds start appearing but from now on, project development will happen there. If you are interested in helping me maintain this module, let me know. Also, there are a couple little bugs in the version currently available on this site. Please wait for the fresh drupal.org build to show up; when that happens I'll be taking down the file from here.

UPDATE 2: Builds are now appearing on Drupal.org. I've removed the download from here, so you'll want to go to the actual project page from now on.

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Back on Sunday, Mashable put out a list of predictions on how Twitter would change blogging in 2009. The first prediction in their list was "tweetbacks", or a way of showing tweets that reference a particular blog article. Well, not two days later did someone actually create them. Social media pro Dan Zarrella whipped up a Tweetbacks system that went live on Tuesday, followed by an update on Thursday.