Lastfm Love Tweet

Amazon links are here! (For testing)

I have implemented links to amazon album and track pages.  This is currently a test period, so the only way to use them is to add them to your custom tweet format.  Details on how to set a custom tweet format can be found here.

The only differences are that now there are 2 additional variables you can use:

• %amazon_album - links to the mp3s for the album
• %amazon_track - links to the mp3 for the track

AND the tweet format now supports ‘sections’.  Sections work as follows:

Lets say you have a tweet format as follows:

I just LOVED ‘%t’ by ‘%a’!  Buy it on amazon at %amazon_album

Now, since we are all very hip, and listen to some very underground music, what happens when amazon doesn’t have anything by the artist?  What happens when the search of amazon comes up empty?

Well, this is what would happen:

I just LOVED ‘Leo the Great’ by ‘The Windsor Terrace All Stars’!  Buy it on amazon at

hmmm.  Not so good.  Well, thats where ‘sections’ come into play.  If I set my tweet format as follows:

I just LOVED ‘%t’ by ‘%’!  [Buy it on amazon at %amazon_album]

Then if there was no value for %amazon_album, the whole section (between the square brackets) would be ignored.  Then my tweet would look like:

I just LOVED ‘Leo the Great’ by ‘The Windsor Terrace All Stars’!

Much better, right?

So, there you have it.  Let the amazon linking commence, oh, and please leave any questions, comments, suggestions, thoughts, etc. in the comments below or feel free to contact me on twitter.

Peter