Very Cool Twitter Trick

Posted by Tom
June 29, 2009

cool twitter trickYou have likely seen a “tweet this” graphic or link on a website. If you click it you are taken to twitter with the text box already filled out for you so you just have to hit update.

Here is an example blog post…

Here is how to put a tweet this link on your website.

Tweet This

To do this just right click on the Tweet This link above and choose copy link location, paste into notepad & change the url, twitter name & text to fit your needs. Then use the link to link to your text like “Tweet This” “Click To Tweet” “Tweet This Page” etc. Remember to keep the message & url under the 140 character limit.

There are some plugins or apps that automate this for you but  that’s how to do it manually.

Here are links to some wordpress plugins

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweetmeme/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-this/

Tom

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