Tweet from wherever you choose :

This is probably one of the most often asked questions around the Internet. It has become not only popular, but rather necessary to have a tweet button, along with a Facebook Like button somewhere on your site. Social media is something everyone uses nowadays, and you’ll be considered backward minded if you don’t include shortcuts to sharing on your website. Having that in mind, we’ll examine the ways to insert a Twitter button on your website.

When the time comes to add the social media buttons, there are several ways to do it, complicated and not so much. Depending on your level of knowledge and the particular necessities, you may need one or another. Let’s take a look at what they are.

The official / classic way :

No matter what other ways we describe in this article, anything they do will be basically what we’re doing here – generating the HTML code for the button and then placing the code wherever we want the button to appear. So first things first, let’s generate the button:

• Go to the twitter button resource page. You can either do that by navigating from http://twitter.com , clicking on Resources and then Buttons, or by directly following this link
• When you finally see the page, it offers you to make several different types of buttons. We’ll discuss the Tweet button, because it has the most options to fill out, but others follow the same principle.

• Fill out the information that follows. The first option is by far the most important one – it tells Twitter what exactly you’re trying to tweet. “Use the Page URL” will tweet the URL of the page that the button is on. Tweeting something else would require entering the URL on this form. You can add title, most SEO practitioners do this. The other fields are pretty much self-explanatory : recommend, hashtag , and so on.

• Take a look at the preview on the right side ? Do you find it to your satisfaction? If not , you can change the appearance by checking “Large button” on the left. If yes – copy the code below the button. This is the HTML code you need for your site
• Paste the code into your blog, but make sure to paste it in the HTML, and not via a Rich Text Editor.

This can’t possibly be the only way, right ?

No , of course it isn’t. If you’re using WordPress, there are several plugins that can come to your advantage, and not only for twitter buttons, but for other social media as well. We’ll try to list the most popular below, but don’t be offended if the one your friends use is not on the list. Throughout the years there have been plenty of plugins to do that job.

 

1. WP Tweet Button: A Twitter button plugin with a functionality that far extends the generation of the button. This piece of software is also has analytic tools, statistics for your tweets, and is completely compatible with the WP Touch plugin, which means it will display perfectly on mobile devices.
2. Easy Twitter Button: Far more simplistic, this plugin only adds the simple, official twitter button, but makes it a lot easier to happen inside of WordPress – no copying and pasting of HTML involved. Works right out the box (installation)

3. Sharebar: Perhaps the most popular of all the plugins for social media share. Twitter, Facebook, even Google + . Easy to install, easy to configure, pleasant to the eye.
Knowing all you read about now, you should have no problem adding a Twitter button to your blog. If you still have questions though, you can look up the help that Twitter offers on the issue.