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:

Twitter Tip

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

twitter tip

Basically, the tool converts this:

Unencoded

To this:

Encoded

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

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

In the example above, the URL would be:

Final

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

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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.

13 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

Dave

28. Mar, 2009

http://TweetSmarter.com/ is much easier

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!