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.

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  1. 1 Missy@Net Media Blog
    Thursday, November 6th, 2008 at 8:48 pm

    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”.

  2. 2 Richard X. Thripp
    Thursday, November 6th, 2008 at 8:51 pm

    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).

  3. 3 Virginia Will by Andrew
    Thursday, November 6th, 2008 at 9:41 pm

    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.

  4. 4 jbj
    Friday, November 7th, 2008 at 1:03 am

    Many thanks to Kyle for the article, and to both of you for the comments!

  5. 5 Markus
    Friday, November 7th, 2008 at 6:40 am

    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!

  6. 6 TYCP Entertainment Magazine
    Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 at 11:56 pm

    Thanks for this. I’d rather have this than a plugin because it’s so simple.

  7. 7 p@r@noid
    Saturday, January 10th, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    Sweet really helpful!

  8. 8 AsceticMonk
    Friday, January 16th, 2009 at 5:24 pm

    Thanks for this! I will be using this in my new blog theme.

  9. 9 Gaurav
    Monday, March 9th, 2009 at 9:27 pm

    hey thanks man.. i need this code….

  10. 10 areisdesigns
    Monday, April 27th, 2009 at 6:24 pm

    Thanks for this! I am adding to my blog now!



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