How to Add "Tweet This" to Your Website

Want your website visitors to share your website with their tweeting friends on Twitter? It's easy - just add the following code to your website pages:


<a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Put your 140 maximum character message here." target="_blank">TWEET this</a>


Replace the Put your 140 maximum character message here. above with whatever message you want your visitors to tweet about.

An example for the message would be:
Checking out FREE craft patterns - See them yourself at CraftFreebies.com.
With the message above, your code will look like this:


<a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Checking out FREE craft patterns - See them yourself at CraftFreebies.com." target="_blank">TWEET this</a>


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Want to use an image with the code rather than text? Use this code:


<a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Checking out FREE craft patterns - See them yourself at CraftFreebies.com!" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.woodworkingplanz.com/tweet.jpg" alt="Tweet this on Twitter" width="170" height="51" border="0">


(be sure to fix the image source above to point to the image on your server without the http://etc.) This will open the Twitter window in a new page.


You can view my Tweet this! image in action on www.CraftFreebies.com.

The code above will add your image with the Twitter code so your website visitors can broadcast your website to their friends on Twitter.

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19% of online people use Twitter now, so adding a link to Twitter should increase your website visitors also.

FYI - The codes above will send whoever clicks on your link to Twitter, where they will have to login if they are not already logged in. Then the "What are you doing" Twitter box will be automatically filled in with the text you included in the link. For example, "Checking out FREE craft patterns - See them yourself at CraftFreebies.com!" All ready for them to tweet!