Click here to download the sharing tools.

The Find Profiles feature helps you find all of your Twitter and Facebook profiles (usernames and pages), and then allows you to select which profile(s) to use for your follow buttons.

This feature currently works with both Facebook and Twitter, and will be integrated with more social networks in future releases.

It is important to note that you do not need to create an AddThis account to use the Find Profiles feature.  But, if you do already have an AddThis account (and have linked your Facebook and/or Twitter accounts), then sign into your AddThis account for your follow buttons to automatically use your social profiles.

Create your AddThis follow buttons today!

He began by talking about memory, perception, and the systems of our brain that control them. Since our attention is easily distracted and much of what we think we see is actually constructed by our brains, as designers we can use techniques such as visual cues and story-telling to guide viewers through interfaces more effectively.

Next, John walked through how we make decisions based on what we perceive and remember – and how easily those memories can be lost. He gave an example of a checkout process that offered a discount code at the beginning, which was forgotten and inaccessible by the end when payment was expected – not a good experience indeed. He then walked through strategies that designers can use to enhance interfaces that help the viewer make decisions such as registrations or purchases, such as:

• asking for smaller commitments to build up to bigger ones
• providing social proof – others who bought this bought that too
• giving perceived control to the viewer – “build” your dream car

For more details, check out John’s slides and join us for upcoming meetups about designing for behavioral change, e-commerce, and usability testing.

These new surfaces demonstrate the popularity of your content on the top social networks.  We retrieve share counts directly from each service’s API; data is cached and loaded asynchronously for optimal page load performance.

We’ll be integrating additional service counts in future releases (and we’d love to know which services you think we should add next).

Toolbox Support and Icon Sizes
Both horizontal and vertical toolboxes are supported, with 16×16, 20×20, and 32×32 pixel icons.

Horizontal Toolbox Examples:

If you already use AddThis, you can start using the individual share counters horizontal toolbox with this HTML snippet:

<!-- Horizontal toolbox -->
<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style">
  <a class="addthis_counter_facebook"></a>
  <a class="addthis_counter_twitter"></a>
  <a class="addthis_counter_pinterest_share"></a>
  <a class="addthis_counter_reddit"></a>
  <a class="addthis_counter_linkedin"></a>
</div>

Vertical Toolbox Examples:

If you already use AddThis, you can start using the individual share counters vertical toolbox with this HTML snippet:

<!-- Vertical toolbox -->
<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_floating_style addthis_32x32_style">
  <a class="addthis_counter_facebook"></a>
  <a class="addthis_counter_twitter"></a>
  <a class="addthis_counter_pinterest_share"></a>
  <a class="addthis_counter_reddit"></a>
  <a class="addthis_counter_linkedin"></a>
</div>

In both cases, if you’re not using AddThis already, you’ll also need to include our JavaScript file:

<!-- AddThis code -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js”></script>

You can get these counters without registering, but if you’re not already an AddThis user and you’d like to receive analytics about how your content is being shared, you’ll need to create an account. It just takes a minute to set up!

Read our full documentation for more information.

Got questions or comments? Know which services you would like us to add next? We’d love to know what you think!

We’re now making it even easier, for WordPress users. Since every WordPress blog already has a standard user system for managing authors and commenters, we’ve created a new WordPress plugin that integrates Social Sign In automatically.

That means you can add Facebook, Google and Twitter-based authentication to your WordPress blog with a single click. Our plugin just adds social authentication to the existing WordPress registration and sign in screens, so the flow doesn’t change for your users–you can use Social Sign In for registering commenters and submitters alike.

Manage multiple WordPress blogs? Connect them all with a single account. If your blogs have many readers, we’ll prefill their profiles with information gleaned when they authenticate with one of our supported services, making registration simpler, faster and more complete.

Best of all, it’s free, and the data is yours! All registered user data remains in your WordPress database. And we use your Facebook, Google, and Twitter application IDs so you’re not tied to our platform. (Don’t have application IDs? They’re free and easy to obtain–the plugin will walk you through the process. They’re important because they let each service know that authentication requests for your domain are authorized by you.)

To get started:

1. Open up your WordPress dashboard
2. Select Plugins > Add New
3. Install “AddThis Social Sign In”
4. Activate the plugin
5. Select Settings > AddThis SSI
6. Follow the instructions for adding your Facebook, Google and Twitter application IDs
7. Log out, and log back in with just one click!

Questions? Comments? Let us know what you think!

Recently we updated more of our social tools to support the many beautiful languages of the world so publishers everywhere can present their users with their preferred method of speaking. Specifically, our brand new sharing experience has been fully upgraded to incorporate all our supported languages. This includes the new email sharing form, end user authentication and the sharing menu itself.

As before, site owners can set their AddThis sharing menu and related functionalities to a specific language OR allow us to automatically detect the user’s browser language settings and customize the experience to match. We also will reorder share services based on popularity within different regions. This behavior is tested to increase sharing rates.

Finally, we’ve also updated our language submission forms, so please help us translate more languages. We want to make sure that everyone can share and do so with ease!

If you have any questions or comments about AddThis internationalization, please feel free to reach out or post in the comments below.

All you need to do is head on over either the Shopify or Magento AddThis plugin page to update or download the latest version for your site.

In case you missed the updates, here is a preview of the streamlined menu, also displaying our new end user authentication for easy, one-click sharing. Our tests of the new menu in action have shown an 11% increase in sharing!

We’ve also refreshed our email sharing form, optimizing one of the most important avenues for sharing on an ecommerce site. Check it out:

If you aren’t already leveraging the AddThis platform and insights on your ecommerce site, here are some stats to give you a little nudge:

• Sharing on Shopify via Twitter is 23% higher than average across our platform
• Shopify users love their Macs, as sharing via a mac is 4x higher on Shopify than average across our platform
• Magento users are 46% more likely to share via their iPads
• Magento users are 57% more likely to share to Facebook than average across our platform

If you have any questions or feedback about our ecommerce plugins, please let us know.

We’re happy to announce major updates to the AddThis sharing tool suite: the new design we’ve been testing in AddThis Labs graduates today, with a slew of new features. Go grab the new code!

We’ve written before about the mind-boggling amount of data every day, and how we use it to provide insights both to our publishers and into trends across our network. But we also use data to drive and refine our own processes and designs. Today, we’ve used what we’ve learned to make sharing even easier, and more personal. That means more engagement from your visitors, more sharing, and more traffic for your site.

Simpler design.

First, we have a new look. We’ve streamlined and simplified the compact menu. We’ve made our email form a lot easier to use, like the email clients you’re already familiar with. Our expanded menu’s been optimized for faster sharing to the most popular services in your region, and easier searching for your personal favorites. (As always, we’ll highlight the services you use for even easier sharing next time.) We’ll take advantage of jQuery on pages that already include it for simple but lovely transitions. And while our new platform takes advantage of HTML5 and loads of modern browser features, we won’t leave you out in the cold if you’re stuck on IE6–though, seriously guys, it’s time.

In Labs, the updated design increased sharing by 11%. In production, it’s going to do even better–due to our second major update.

Instant sharing.

Sharing to Facebook or Twitter used to mean popping a new window. That’s fast, but we figured if we made it even faster, more people would be sharing your content. To that end, we’re introducing “instant” inline sharing to the most popular social networks. If your users link their social accounts with AddThis, they’ll be able to share directly to Facebook or Twitter without even leaving your page. The new inline interface means there’s no extra page load–that means more unimpeded sharing. Even better, once a user authenticates, they’ll remain logged in on every single site with AddThis, until they log out. Everybody wins.

Adding social sign in to our sharing tools doesn’t just mean it’s easier to share. It also means it’s a lot easier to personalize your AddThis experience–easily choose the services you want to see once, and you’ll see them across all the sites that use AddThis.

Pain-free pinning.

Our recent updates for Pinterest are fully integrated with the new design. We’ve created the simplest and easiest way to integrate with Pinterest: almost no work necessary! Put AddThis on any page you want to make pinnable, and we’ll show a simple, elegant lightbox to showcase all the images on your page for your users to pick from. You can always specify your own image, too, if you want! We’ve found this feature can boost sharing to Pinterest by 20% or more.

You can add all these capabilities to your site with one simple code snippet. Take a look and try it out!

Our plugins for WordPress, Magento, and Shopify will be updated this week to support the new surfaces.

Questions? Comments? As always, we’d love your feedback.

We’re stoked to announce the newest addition to AddThis Labs:
Social Sign In.

You’ve probably noticed that many websites now allow you to register or sign in using one of your existing social network accounts, like your Facebook username or your Twitter ID. It’s not just a startup fad; in fact, there’s solid science behind it. Blue Research studied the holiday shopping habits of US consumers and noticed that the vast majority of us are annoyed by having to create a new account to use a site, and would generally rather use one of our existing social network accounts.

If you’ve ever had to register on an obscure website just to buy one perfect gift, you probably know exactly how this feels! Even outside of retail applications, users are much more likely to register for and engage with your site if the process is bootstrapped with their existing online identity–some research has shown users authenticating socially spend up to 50% more time on site than the rest.

Seeing the value of social authentication is easy. Building it, though, hasn’t been. Most existing social authentication solutions have either required a lot of complicated server-side programming; mastering the ins and outs of OpenID, OAuth, and other specifications; or paying for a hosted solution and thus giving up control over your users’ data, not to mention some of your budget!

Our approach is simpler. And it might be the right one for you.

Use their standard buttons, or design your own.

Social Sign In by AddThis is a straightforward JavaScript library that makes it easy to strengthen your relationship to your users by adding Facebook, Twitter or Google authentication to your site.You provide the application keys for each service you’d like to integrate. We take care of rendering the buttons and managing the authentication flow. When a user successfully authenticates, we provide the data directly to you, via JavaScript.

Some of the social data you’d get,
if I logged into your site using Social Sign In.

From then on, it’s your show, whether you want to pre-fill a registration form, directly create a new account, or store the data for later analysis. Our goal is just to make it easy to bring your users’ social data to your site, whether for registration, authentication, or personalization. You can try it out live on our Labs page.

Want to offer as many services as possible? No problem. Regardless of the network used, the data comes back in the same format — so you only have to write code once.

Like all our tools, you’ll get data in our analytics dashboard, too. We’re starting by keeping track of what networks your users are logging in with, but we’d love your thoughts on other information that might be relevant.

To make integration even easier, we’ve open sourced a fully functional demo in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL, with a simple user registration system based on Social Sign In. If you’ve always wanted a user system, feel free to start with ours! Or you can use our code as a basis for integrating Social Sign In into your existing registration and authentication system.

Questions? Comments? We’d love your feedback!

If you’d like to help even more and get a sneak peek at new features, join our AddThis User Group. All you need to do is provide your email address at the end of the survey.

Thanks in advance for your feedback!

Take the survey

1. Follow: Do you have a Facebook fan page, a Twitter handle, a Pinterest board or other external channels for your brand? (A silly question, really.) Want a simple way to aggregate these channels for your most loyal subjects to keep up with you? Grab our easy-to-install Follow buttons and place them on your WordPress site. Don’t limit yourself to Facebook and Twitter – we have LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube and more.

2. Welcome bar: Want to give your users a big “HOWDY HO!” welcome when they land on your site and encourage them to share the page? What if you knew they were coming in from Twitter and wanted them to “follow” you? Install our handy dandy Welcome bar plugin and create action and engagement from users as soon as they come to your pages. Here’s a Welcome bar greeting visitors from the New York Times:

Some other great ways to leverage the Welcome bar:

• Highlight specific content
• Identify new vs. returning guests; encourage returning visitors to follow your blog
• Offer discounts or coupons, if applicable
• Pump up a current site promotion or contest
• Cross-promote with a friend’s blog or charitable site you support

In addition to these new plugins we have also increased the performance and added some new hooks to allow publishers to more easily change the behavior of our popular AddThis for WordPress sharing plugin. You can see examples of how to use these hooks here.

Please let us know if you have any questions regarding these new tools and as always, we love feedback/suggestions/high fives, etc. Our community is our most valuable asset and we want to hear from YOU.

AddThis now lets sites integrate Pinterest sharing with one simple code snippet and no additional configuration requirements. What makes this special? Developers don’t need to worry about specific configuration to specify images for their pages — something that can be challenging with other tools, including Pinterest’s. Include AddThis, and Pinterest will “just work”.

For example, put AddThis onto any page you want to make pinnable, and AddThis will help visitors choose a suitable image to share. If you already have a specific image in mind, you can always specify that as well. Here’s an example:

And the best part? A test before launch showed a 20% growth in shares.

While on the topic of numbers, we’ve made no secret about the popularity of Pinterest on the AddThis network. Some additional stats:

• People following brands on Pinterest has increased 26% in the last month.
• Over 50% of sharing on pinterest via mobile comes from iPad.
• On average sharing via mobile to Pinterest breaks down to 55% iPad, 17% iPhone, 28% Android versus the network at 35% iPhone, 35% iPad and 30% Android
• Pinterest users are less tech savvy favoring the browsers that ship with their computer versus installing Firefox or Chrome.
• In May, referral traffic from Pinterest was higher by 30% than Twitter across the AddThis network.
• In June, sharing to Pinterest has passed Tumblr and Google +1.
• Sharing to Pinterest is 6% greater than Tumblr and 7% greater than Google +1.
• Pinterest dominates in English speaking countries (US, UK, CA, AU).  The top most country that shares via Pinterest that is not English speaking is India, followed by Brazil and Germany.

With numbers that like that, it’s crazy not to give your users easy access to sharing to Pinterest – and now with our easy integration, you have no excuse!

As always, please let us know if you have any questions or feedback about any of the AddThis suite of tools!

If there is one thing clear in the current world of social media, it’s that Pinterest is HOT.

On the AddThis network alone sharing to Pinterest has grown 1750% since the beginning of the year. Referral traffic from Pinterest (clicks) has grown 4300%!

With numbers like that, it’s no surprise we’ve also had a very vocal community of publishers and bloggers telling us loud and clear, they want easy sharing to Pinterest and they want it now! So, we are beginning to test a way to share to Pinterest that requires no configuration and gives your visitors a simple way to pin their favorite photos to their Pinboards.

Before, sharing to Pinterest was only available to publishers who configured their sites with the appropriate tags. The configuration was somewhat trickier than we’d prefer our standard, easy-to-grab AddThis button to be – we want to do the work so you don’t have to.

You can add this piece to your AddThis code:

var addthis_config = {
ui_use_image_picker : true
}

If there is an existing addthis_config, you can add this in it:

ui_use_image_picker : true

We’ll be rolling out this awesome new way to share to Pinterest to all users in the near future, but if you can’t wait you can turn on the feature now by changing your addthis_config.  Note that IE will remain as the old version until we release this to everyone.

If you have any feedback or support questions, please drop a note below or visit our help center!

The vertical bar comes in a variety of sizes. By default, it floats on the top left side of the page, to make your sharing tools always visible. It’s easy to implement and won’t interfere with your site.

If you’ve installed this tool on your site, drop us a line so we can feature it. Here are some folks using it:

drizzydrake.org

Here’s a quick summary of the new stuff.

Welcome bar
The Welcome bar is all about optimizing your site for your incoming visitors. It lets you look at where your visitors are coming from, determines what type of visitor they are, and welcomes them with a specific call-to-action.  These calls-to-action are presented as a horizontal bar at the top of the page containing custom messages and action buttons.

These actions will help you optimize for specific goals such as increasing follower counts, growing registrations by rewarding loyalty, and more. For example, want to increase membership by offering a free trial to returning visitors? It’s easy.

As with all AddThis social plugins, you’ll get in-depth insights into how the Welcome bar is performing via a new module in your analytics summary.

Trending content box
When you use AddThis to power sharing for your site, our data-processing platform knows which content is working for you across your social channels.  The Trending content box is a customizable plugin that helps you surface this content to drive more traffic within your site.  Designed to fit seamlessly into your pages and automatically feature the most trending, popular, or network-specific content, the Trending content box helps to increase overall traffic and site retention.  Want to customize the look of your Trending content box? No problem – we’ve designed it to be completely configurable to match your site’s look-and-feel.

As for analytics, there’s a new module on the summary report that shows you how many additional pageviews this plugin is generating for you.

Like the Welcome bar, the Trending content box interface is fully-customizable via APIs — you can grab a great experience out of the box, or make it blend in seamlessly with the rest of your site.

Engagement Analytics
On top of the analytics we’ve added for the Welcome bar and Trending content box, you’ll notice something else the next time you log into your analytics console.  We’re now showing you copied-text data — key words and phrases your visitors are copying out of your pages. You can see which text is resonating, and which keywords might help you attract new visitors via SEO or potentially keep your visitors engaged longer.

AddThis now gives you the richest real-time view of your social lifecycle.  Building on our recently announced Follower reporting, and the full-lifecycle social analytics you already know and love (including our address bar tracking), this new copied-text reporting provides another piece of your social optimization puzzle.  And again, its not just about analytics — this data powers all of our social plugins.

We’ll be diving deeper into each of these new capabilities, and the ways in which you can use them to drive traffic and engagement, in followup posts over the coming week or two.  For now, check em out and let us know what you think!

Replace the URL of the image the pin is on, and place this within the <HEAD></HEAD> of the page:

<meta property="og:image" content="http://YOUR-DOMAIN.com/IMAGE.jpg"/>

You might even have this line of code already on each page of your site. This open graph tag is used by multiple services, including Pinterest and Facebook, to display an image with the shared content.

We recently discussed the popularity of Pinterest and since, the service has continued to grow. Because we are so enthusiastic about everyone’s penchant for pinning, here are some fun facts from the AddThis network:

• Content is shared to Pinterest (11%) via mobile devices more than Facebook (7%) and Twitter (9%)
• Almost 35% of all content shared to Pinterest via AddThis is food. NOM!
• The US, UK, Canada and Australia are all the most socially engaged countries on Pinterest

Dont forget, we also support the Pinterest “Pin It” button, if that’s your preferred implementation. One of the biggest advantages of leveraging the AddThis Pinterest sharing tools is the great insights you will gain through our analytics about how your users are “pinning” your content.

Now get back to your boards, people.

As with all our tools, we want to give you insight into how the buttons are performing, so make sure you sign up for the AddThis analytics to see which channels your users are going to and even more than that – which pages on your site are actually generating the followers.

If you have any questions, please feel free to head to our support page and we’ll help you get some answers.