How to have a ‘tweet this post’ button on each post

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    suzywalker · Member ·

    Hi

    I’ve been using the twitter widget but I have noticed that wordpress.org users can use a ‘tweet this’ button at the bottom of each post and wordpress.com users dont seem to have a function for this. Is there such a thing for wordpress.com users that I can add to my blog or is this not a possibility?

    Many thanks

    Suzy

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    An automatic Tweet This button isn’t possible as far as I know, but you can put a button to Twitter.com at the bottom of each post. Just make an image and link it to Twitter.com; but that won’t automatically start a tweet with your post in it, it’ll just redirect people. I’m sure soon someone will come up with a way to do this.

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    suzywalker · Member ·

    thanks raincoaster – maybe I’ll looking into how to get it to do that myself now.

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    carocat · Member ·

    Hey, you can do a workaround though, but that requires you to manually modify it each time.

    If you add this at the end of each post perhaps with an image, it’ll automatically redirect them to Twitter/home with the text in the box:

    http://twitter.com/home?status=LINK/TEXT HERE

    So for example for this thread it’d be:

    http://twitter.com/home?status=How to have a 'tweet this post' button on each post: http://is.gd/vytU

    You’d have to publish your post and then edit it again with the link though. And I’d recommend using an url shortener as well.

    Hope this helps.

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