How to Create Pre-Written “ReTweets” for Twitter
Posted on 13. Mar, 2009 by Brian Wong in Social Media
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!
What’s Next?
How about creating custom Twitter backgrounds to brand yourself? Check out the matching themes I use for my blog, Twitter, Facebook Fan Page and YouTube Channel at PersonalBrandingThemes.com
How about automating your Twitter account?
Try this software: TweetAdder
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Brian Wong is a serial entrepreneur, Internet marketer and social media marketing expert. Brian helps individuals to build and monetize their personal brand online.
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17 Comments
Malika Duke
28. Mar, 2009
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
28. Mar, 2009
Thanks for the recommendation. :)
Rahul
28. Mar, 2009
@dave Agreed with you.
HaraTaicher
28. Mar, 2009
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
28. Mar, 2009
Like it? – I love it :-D
Many thanks for sharing Brian
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Brian Kurtz
16. Apr, 2009
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
10. Jun, 2009
Such a useful blog?wow !!!!
Magdalena
10. Jun, 2009
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
23. Jul, 2009
I was just looking for this and here it was – thx!!!
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21. Dec, 2009
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Cornelius Aesop
13. Jan, 2010
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
01. Apr, 2010
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
08. Apr, 2010
what about facebook? same rules apply?
KJpe
30. Apr, 2010
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
30. Apr, 2010
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
15. Jul, 2010
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)?
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