Twitter Launches At Anywhere

It seems like Twitter is pretty much everywhere these days: Internet searches, in the news, on every website ever, etc. However, Twitter isn’t content to just sit back and revel in its popularity; the micro-blogging giant unveiled a new service today at SXSW called @ Anywhere. The service will allow website owners to drop in a few lines of javascript and provide a new level of Twitter functionality within the website.

Twitter users on participating third-party sites will get that Twitter functionality without ever having to leave the website and open a new window for Twitter.com. At Anywhere sites will display a hyperlink on users with Twitter accounts, and visitors can place the pointer over top to get instant information about their Twitter profiles and most recent tweets.

Twitter explains a little further in a blog post: “Imagine being able to follow a New York Times journalist directly from her byline, tweet about a video without leaving YouTube, and discover new Twitter accounts while visiting the Yahoo! home page—and that’s just the beginning. Twitter has proven to be compelling in a variety of ways. With @anywhere, web site owners and operators will be able to offer visitors more value with less heavy lifting.”

Initial @ Anywhere partners include Amazon, Bing, Digg, eBay, The Huffington Post, The NY Times, Yahoo and YouTube. [via TechCrunch and Twitter Blog]