Quick Tip: Adding A ‘Tweet This’ Link To Your Site
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I’ve just spent some time trying to find out how to add a ‘Tweet This’ link to my non-Wordpress sites, without having to use the TwitThis service.
Not that there is anything wrong with TwitThis - it’s a great service - but the tweet format is limited to a single ‘action’ (’Reading’, ‘Waiting for’, …), followed by the title of the page.
What I was looking for was a way to customize the tweet that would be posted to Twitter, in order to provide a little more info about my site, and make the tweet more attractive.
Finding a solution appeared to be harder than I thought it would be, so - now I’ve finally found one - I decided to share it here, so you can profit from it too.
It’s really quite simple:
| http://twitter.com/home?status=your custom tweet |
Here’s an example link:
The actual link looks like this:
http://twitter.com/home?status=I’ve just taken the Twitter Beginner Quiz. Can you beat my score? http://twitterknowhow.com/got-what-it-takes-take-the-twitter-quiz/
Simple, but definitely good to know. 
Thanks, Mieke. I will be using this on my site.
I’m a lil slow at this so pardon me. what you’ve done is cool, but i have no clue how you did it. How do you take such a long url and make it a cool short phrase that can be clicked on?
Exactly what I need right now
thanks
Hey it doesn’t work for me.
I tried all the options but It simply opens my Twitter page and my Update box is empty.
Of course I’m signed in when I do this but this is not working on my html page.
I enclosed this in link tag but no success.
Kindly help.
Thanks!
Awesome, just what I wanted to hear, to easy!
Thanks!
Lukas.
thanks
Couldn’t be any easier. Thanks for the info.
I’d love to use a #HashTag in my tweet but it’s breaking it…
What code do I need to use for the #?