Mfarhanonline Social Media News: Like the sharing bar to the left of this article? Tweet-timing app Buffer wants your site to have one just like it — but with a Buffer button. The startup, which spaces out users’ tweets to hit feeds at optimal times, has acquired a WordPress add-on called Digg Digg (no affiliation to the content ranking site) that makes it easy to insert share button docks on WordPress blogs. Digg Digg had more than 300,000 users when Buffer acquired it and included buttons for social sites such as Twitter, Google Plus, Facebok, Digg and LinkedIn. Now it will also include a button that adds a tweet to the clicker’s Buffer queue. Buffer’s sharing tool has 120,000 registered users (about 30% of whom are monthly active users), and it’s hard to argue that giving people a way to spread their tweets throughout the day — even when they’re not online — isn’t a good idea. The startup’s problem, however, is that it’s also a very simple idea and would be easy for a larger Twitter client to imitate. To mitigate this risk, Buffer aims to integrate with as many other tools as possible. It’s already integrated with iPhone and iPad Twitter client Tweetings and social media dashboard SocialBro , and its buttons have been installed on about 3,000 sites. “We initially developed Buffer as a smart sharing tool,” Buffer co-founder Leonhard Widrich tells Mfarhanonline . “Whilst this has been very successful, we want to move beyond that and Buffer into a new sharing standard and create a completely new way of how content is shared on the web.” The Digg Digg acquisition, which came with new Buffer buttons on 300,000 sites, fits well with the startup’s strategy of becoming ubiquitous on the web. Widrich says Buffer plans to eventually extend the functionality of the s! ocial sh aring dock to Typepad and Blogger. The plugin can be downloaded here . Image courtesy of iStockphoto, flyparade More About: Buffer , Digg Digg , Twitter For more Business coverage: Follow Mfarhanonline Business on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Business channel Download our free apps for Android , Mac , iPhone and iPad Social Media reviews series maintain by Mayya
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