How to Create a Tweet Button
A "tweet" refers to a message posted on the social networking website Twitter. Twitter is a micro-blogging platform that allows you to "tweet" messages of 140 characters or less, which are read by your followers. These messages frequently contain links to Web pages containing articles, pictures, and videos. If you have a Web page and you'd like to give your visitors the option to "tweet" your page's URL, you can do this by creating a tweet button.
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Instructions
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Open your Web browser and go to the Tweet Button web page on the Twitter website.
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Select the radio button next to the style of Twitter button you wish to create.
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Click the "Tweet Text" tab. Click to select the radio button next to "The title of the page the button is on" text, or select the radio button next to the blank text field and type in your own tweet text.
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Select the "URL" tab. Click to select "The URL for the page the button is on" radio button, or select the radio button next to the blank text field and type in a custom URL.
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Click the "Language" tab. Click to select your preferred language from the drop-down menu.
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Type your Twitter username, or the Twitter username of the person who wrote the article, in the "1" text field under the "Recommend people to follow" section header. Type a second Twitter user name in the "2" field, if desired.
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Locate the button preview area in the bottom left corner of the Web page. The button will display on your own Web page exactly the way it is displayed in the preview. If the button preview is satisfactory, continue to the next Step. If you wish to make changes to the button, repeat Steps 2 through 6.
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Highlight the text in the "Copy and paste this code..." text field, then press and hold "CTRL" and tap "c" on your keyboard to copy the code to your Windows clipboard. Paste the code (hold "CTRL" and tap "v" on your keyboard) in your Web page code to display the tweet button.
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