How to Create Pre-Written “ReTweets” for Twitter

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Pre-written Tweets

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a pre-written “Retweet” link or button. What this means is that with a click of a button, the browser will go to your Twitter account and create a new Tweet with your pre-written message in it.

Now, I’m having a hard time explaining this in words so just go ahead and click on the link below (it will open your Twitter account in a new window):

Get the idea?

There are a lot of applications for this technique. You can add it to a blog post or a webpage. Then send a Tweet out to your followers. This message could be forwarded really quickly all throughout the Twitterverse! Try it and see.

So how do you do this for your own blog or website?

Here Are The Steps:

Step 1:
Go to Twitter and type the message that you want “Retweeted”. Make sure that it’s within the 140 character limit. In the example above, the ReTweet message is this:

Step 2:
Go http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm and convert the text into a “URL-Safe” encoding format.

Basically, the tool converts this:

To this:

Step 3:
Add this link to the beginning of your message:

http://twitter.com/home?status=

In the example above, the URL would be:

Now all you need to do is create a hyperlink with that URL. You could leave it as a text link or use an image like what I did in the example above.

Like it? Leave a comment below and Retweet it please by clicking the link!

PS
Don’t forget to follow me on Twitter too!

www.twitter.com/brianwong

What’s Next?

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Try this software: TweetAdder

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Leave A Reply (28 comments So Far)

Malika Duke
1512 days ago

Hey Brian, Thank you for this tutorial I was looking for this just yesterday! I thanked @MariSmith for the RT about it.

I also RT of course because I know my followers will really thank me for it.

Malika
Brian Wong
1512 days ago

Thanks for the recommendation. :)
Rahul
1511 days ago

@dave Agreed with you.
HaraTaicher
1511 days ago

I know this is probably easier than I think it is, but for the moment, I don’t get it. Will revisit in the am after sleep.
Hara
@AronStevenson
1511 days ago

Like it? – I love it :-D

Many thanks for sharing Brian
Brian Kurtz
1493 days ago

Do you know of a way to enhance the URL so that when the button is clicked the message is preloaded into the Status box and then the update button is AUTOMATICALLY pressed?

I’m hoping that there is some type of opreator like “?Update=POST” or something like that which you can tack in there to get it to auto-post the message.
Rasia
1437 days ago

Such a useful blog?wow !!!!
Magdalena
1437 days ago

my God, i thought you were going to chip in with some decisive insght at the end there, not leave it with ?we leave it to you to decide?.
Steve
1395 days ago

I was just looking for this and here it was – thx!!!
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1243 days ago

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Cornelius Aesop
1220 days ago

The introduction of hashtags (#) into your post will prevent this code from working, which all you have to do is remove the hashtags and you are good to go!
Kyle Webs
1143 days ago

Thank you so much for this, I have to Google it every time because I forget….I guess I’ll bookmark this page instead of searching all over for it. Thanks again for the help!
abbyleigh
1136 days ago

what about facebook? same rules apply?
KJpe
1113 days ago

Any idea how I can add a #(hash) tag while creating the retweet link using Step 1. When I create one using the encoder and display it on a page, everything works well except that the hash tags are never shown!
Brian Wong
1113 days ago

Sure. Try this:
1. Go to http://tweetsmarter.com/NEWindex.htm
2. Type your message including the “#” tag
3. Click on the “Add Retweet Link”
4. Then just copy the shortened url as your link
5. Use the shortened link anywhere on your blog or website
Aaron Newton
1037 days ago

Very impressive.

It’s a long shot, but I don’t suppose you know of a way to get this to use Twitter’s native retweet format (i.e. where the retweet icon is displayed in the Twitter feed)?
Jacob Sokol
875 days ago

Thanx so much dude!
Ryan Lee
743 days ago

Wow, thanks. This is exactly what I was looking for!
Armand Eismont
722 days ago

Very insightful. Will definitely share this article on my Twitter account. Looking forward to your future posts.
Ener Hax
694 days ago

excellent! exactly what i needed! thank you =)
Liat
468 days ago

Great tutorial Brian! Thank you so much!
Diane
367 days ago

Thanks, Brian! How do you do send an auto post to Facebook?
Sara
331 days ago

Hi,

Would love the info on how to do this on facebook!

In the meantime, you can add these symbols before the wording to the pre-written tweet.

%20 is a space…which is already included.
%23 for a Hashtag
%40 to add the @ symbol before a user name

When adding an address you would use “http%3A%2F%2Fwww.inannahouse.org
the %3A is for :
%2F is for /

Here was my code that I edited for my business:
https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?source=webclient&text=%23BeLymeMinded+Pass+on+awareness+for+%40InannaHouse+the+first+in-patient+care+facility+for+those+with+%23Lyme+Disease+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.inannahouse.org
Andre
319 days ago

Thanks for that great “tutorial”. Was exactly what I was looking for! :-)

But I use the prefix: https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=
Also works! :-)

Many greetings,
André
Sebastian
261 days ago

Thank you, that’s exactly what I was looking for.
Regards Sebastian
Amanda Walter
65 days ago

This is very useful Brian, thank you. I’m having a hard time using hashtags in the pre-written tweet. Is it possible?

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