Attributing Twitter shares to the author's Twitter handle

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  stephenieking · Member · Jun 25, 2011 at 4:21 pm

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  How can I set it up so that if someone Tweets one of my postings, that rather than having it just show “The world really is that small: http://t.co/2uAm1O6” that it attributes the Tweet share to me as the author by showing “The world really is that small: http://t.co/2uAm1O6 via @stephenie_king”? Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Jun 25, 2011 at 7:50 pm

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  I’m sorry but this cannot be done.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 25, 2011 at 11:21 pm

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  It would depend entirely on the method they use to post it to Twitter. It’s odd, but the share buttons seem to automatically use Twitter’s custom shortener instead of WP’s. I suppose coders COULD change that, but there’s no way I know of to attribute it to anyone’s twitter handle AT WP.COM. The Tweetmeme plugin is configurable so it gives something like:

  RT @authorname Post Title| Your Blogname http:what.evr