Are you following the WordPress Recipes blog? If not, you really should be! My fellow blogger and friend Jean-Baptiste Jung has created this blog to feature a number of “recipes” or code snippets. In addition to the content, he’s also got a great design that has been getting attention all throughout the blogosphere.
In his latest recipe, Jean explains how to add a “Send to Twitter” link to your blog, or what I prefer to call it, a “Tweet This!” link. The idea is to add a link on your blog (usually below the content) that people can simply click to discuss the post on Twitter.
If you’d like to add a “Tweet This!” link to your blog, here is the code you’ll need:
<a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Currently reading <?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="Click to send this page to Twitter!" target="_blank">Tweet This!</a>
I would think that this could potentially be another great way to fetch traffic, possibly even better than a “Digg This!” link or something else along those lines.
Kyle Eslick
Kyle Eslick is the founder and primary author of WordPress Hacks. You can learn more about him at KyleEslick.com or you can follow his personal tweets here.
Thanks for releasing this version. 
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I use Twitter daily and it is a great tool to network with other bloggers.
I don’t think i’ve seen many re-tweets on Twitter from a blog though. I wonder how it looks. Maybe i’ve just not noticed. This brings up a good question.
How does a re-tweet from a reader/visitor on Twitter look like?
Hmmmn. Will have to find out.
P.S. Jean from WPRecipes totally rocks. As Matt from WP says, “Code is Poetry”.
Awesome, I had this idea too! I created Tweet This, a WP plugin, to do this. It shortens URLs in advance through Th8.us, TinyURL, or other services (you can choose).
Is there a way to get tweet this into a wordpress.com blog? you can’t use plug ins on a .com blog.
That’s some handy code! Thanks for the great tip.
I think Twitter can definitely be an important marketing tool for bloggers. This helps that even more.
Many thanks to Kyle for the article, and to both of you for the comments!
I have done this with twitthis.com, where I can choose between some stauses. The code is:
< a href="http://twitthis.com/twit?url=" title="Click to send this page to Twitter!" target="_blank" >Tweet This!Thanks for this. I’d rather have this than a plugin because it’s so simple.
Sweet really helpful!
Thanks for this! I will be using this in my new blog theme.
hey thanks man.. i need this code….
Thanks for this! I am adding to my blog now!
Thank you. This came in handy.
Thanks! This helped me sooo much!
This article makes it easy for me to insert retweet in my blog.
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