Ralph Spandl pulls apart the inner workings of Tweet Me - a custom Kentico web part allowing for the sharing of blog posts via Twitter - sharing the thought processes behind the development.

The idea of developing a Kentico web part that would automatically append a Twitter update link came one raining morning. Until that point I had not planned to write a web part and I was not a big fan of Twitter.

I’d had one of my colleagues Alice O’Brien telling me that I should be using Twitter, for weeks, but I could not imagine spending any time tweeting, and I had no idea what to tweet about.

In fact, the only thing I could think of using Twitter for was to maybe spread the word about my blog posts. An idea was born. I needed a simple, easy-to-use button that would create tweets of my blog posts, usable by my readers as well - a simple one click web part.