Close (X)

Blog

Email Marketing, Business & Monkeys

MailChimp Integration with Twitter, other Social Sites

January 20th, 2009 | by Ben

After you send an email campaign, sometimes you want to post a link on Twitter, so your friends (and their friends) can see it too.

We just made that easy. Go to the Campaigns Tab, and look for this sharing icon:

Click that link, and we’ll take you to a page where you can directly post a link to Twitter (we’ll even shorten the URL for you with our own MailChimpy “eepurl.com”). It’s a nice time saver, so you don’t have to go find the Campaign-Archive link for your campaign, shorten it in TinyURL, login to Twitter, etc.

If you’re logged in to Facebook, MySpace, StumbleUpon, Digg, Magnolia or Delicious, you can also easily post a link to your campaign there.

Spread the monkey love:
  • TwitThis
  • Digg
  • Facebook
  • del.icio.us
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • description
  • Google
  • LinkedIn
  • Ma.gnolia
  • MisterWong
  • Netvouz
  • NewsVine
  • Slashdot
  • Technorati
  • YahooMyWeb
  • BlinkList
  • Design Float
  • Mixx
  • Pownce
  • Propeller
  • Webnews.de

Tags:
Posted in MailChimp News, MailChimp Upgrade, Using MailChimp | 16 Comments »

16 Comments

    • daveconrey says:

      This may quite possibly be the deal maker for me. I’ve been comparing email marketing solutions and I’m really impressed with MailChimp’s offerings, but this makes it for me.

      I do have one question though, I can see how this would work with Facebook and Twitter, but how does it work with Stumble Upon, Digg, and other social bookmarking? I wouldn’t want it to look like I’m always only pimping my own stuff, especially to my followers.

      There’s no follow up function on this blog (surprising, really). Would you be willing to email me with a response?

      Reply to this comment
    • Ben says:

      Hi Dave,

      For Digg, we’d pass the URL of your email campaign’s archive over to their “submit a new link” page. Then, you can (and definitely should) actually modify the title and description so it doesn’t look like you’re just auto-submitting to everything in sight (which would be lame).

      Reply to this comment
    • Randy Kinkaid says:

      Ben,

      First, Kudos to you and your team on a top notch product. I’m just launch my first campaing with MailChimp and am extremely happy with the ease of use and impressive resources that you have.

      Second, related to this post, I’m very impressed with the social network integration. My question is around reporting. Is there a way to track the hits on the archive email?

      Thanks, again

      Randy

      Reply to this comment
    • Jeff Tincher says:

      is there anyway to allow customers to select which social sites we’d like to use in the *|MC:SHARE|* (that would be amazingly cool)

      I still think this is a GREAT feature for us to use! I’m all about spreading the work — socially!

      Reply to this comment
    • Ben says:

      Not as of right now. This is the 2nd or 3rd request we’ve had for that though, so we’re considering it. Thanks!

      Reply to this comment
    • pauleco says:

      Hey – monkey lovers!

      We are totally loving our Mailchimp service – can’t believe we have been manually managing our databases, manually sending them, and manually managing bounces unsubs etc.. now it is so easy – plus we get the added value of your simian humour!

      Anyway – back to the banana in hand!

      Facebook integration.

      I notice that you can share the link to your friends, but how about Facebook Pages integration?

      I imagine most MailChimp users are businesses/brands/organisations rather than individuals – so therefore being able to add it to a page or share with ‘fans’ would be most useful. What say you?

      Cheers
      Paul

      Reply to this comment
      • Amanda @ Mailchimp says:

        Right now, the easiest way to share with your Facebook Pages is to copy the shortened URL generated when you share with your Facebook friends, and paste that into the status update box on your page. We realize that this is not a very graceful solution and will definitely pass the “share to Facebook pages” idea along to our devs.

        Reply to this comment
    • pauleco says:

      Hi Amanda

      Thanks for the reply, it’s not such a hardship to copy/paste for sure. I look forward to hearing what the devs think of the FB pages idea – while you are on the line to them – maybe mention FBconnect and Twitter 0auth too? :)

      Peaces
      Paul

      Reply to this comment
    • Dave Savatski says:

      I’ve been beating the drum here at the nonprofit I work for to catch up to everyone else in the world with social networking – for the sole purpose of being able to utilize more of Mail Chimp’s awesome features. Sometimes I shake with excitement when I just think about the possibilities…

      Reply to this comment
    • Ben says:

      Quick update on the social sharing feature – we’ll be tracking stats for tweets and re-tweets in v4.2: http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/tracking-twitter-tweets-about-your-email-campaigns-in-mailchimp/

      Reply to this comment
    • Renato says:

      Hi, can we add share buttons for only a specific text on the newsletter, rather than for the whole thing?
      Thanks!

      Reply to this comment
    • Brad Smith says:

      Looks like a great product and love the flexibility and the way you guys think.
      Can MailChimp be integrated into EasyMemberPro with an existing email setup that comes with EasyMemberPro? I want MailChimp to be able to take over where the existing emails finishes. Does that make sense?

      Reply to this comment

Leave a Reply

* indicated required
http://www.mailchimp.com/nonrestrictiveocean.php