Share on Twitter link

Twitter bird

Ever wanted to give your readers, or your client’s readers a chance to share the post quickly on Twitter?

The code is straight forward:

<a href=”http://twitter.com/home?status=Currently reading http://www.test.com/post-url” title=”Click to share this post on Twitter”>Share on Twitter</a>

If you’re using Wordpress and want to automate this, simply use the following to insert the link to the current post in the loop into your link:

<a href=”http://twitter.com/home?status=Currently reading <?php the_permalink(); ?>” title=”Click to share this post on Twitter”>Share on Twitter</a>

Share this with friends:

Like what you've just read? Share it to your friends using your favourite service below:

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Stumble Upon Share on Google Share on MySpace Share on Delicious Share on Digg Share on Google Buzz Share via Reddit Share via E-Mail Share via Wordpress.com Share via Tumblr Share via Posterous Share via Newsvine

Comments:

  1. This post is very much helpful. Thank you.
    But, Instead of redirecting to twitter home and submit, I need, the status should be automatically updated. Can you please give any Idea?

  2. Hi, there is one issue that if I haven’t login yet, twitter will redirect to homepage with no status.
    Share on Twitter

  3. I would like to know … is there any way to shorten the URL as well using this method. A lot of our URL page is long.

  4. Hi. Thanks for the tips!

    I’m having problems passing a URL with the character “&”. i.e.

    ?status=Checkout+http://www.mysite.com/home?page=show_ad&adid=13

    Twitter ignores anything after & so only passes:

    Checkout http://www.mysite.com/home?page=show_ad

    Any suggestions?

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