one of the quickest and most successful things i did when we created a web page for my latest book, was to add a button that allowed people to click on it a then post a pre-written tweet. it makes it really easy for people to tweet what you want and removes the barrier of effort that’s normally required.
here’s an example pre-written tweet button followed by the step by step instructions:
pre-written tweet example
next you need to encode this tweet so its ‘url friendly’ (this basically means the spaces and some other characters are replaced). go to http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/ and paste in your tweet. then click on ‘encode’ and copy the resulting text to your clipboard.
after encoding:
this%20is%20an%20example%20of%20a%20pre-written%20tweet-%20don%27t%20forget%20that%20it%20needs%20to%20be%20less%20than%20280%20characters…
now you just need to add the following text to the beginning of the encoded text:
https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=
so this:
this%20is%20an%20example%20of%20a%20pre-written%20tweet-%20don%27t%20forget%20that%20it%20needs%20to%20be%20less%20than%20280%20characters…
becomes:
https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=this%20is%20an%20example%20of%20a%20pre-written%20tweet-%20don%27t%20forget%20that%20it%20needs%20to%20be%20less%20than%20280%20characters…
last step – you now just need to link to this long url that you have created. you can do this on a normal text link or on an image to create a button. here is an example link and you can see the code below:
<a href=”http://twitter.com/home?status=this%20an%20example%20of%20a%20pre-written%20tweet%20-%20don%27t%20forget%20it%20needs%20to%20be%20less%20than%20280%20characters….′</a>
a great little tip is to paste this long url into a url shortner (my favourite is bit.ly and the you can include the pre-written tweet in a tweet or use the shortened url anywhere else. test it out and be sure to share it with your followers on twitter! enjoy.
