Custom tweet buttons

[kewpintf]

How do I get a custom tweet button where the message that appears when clicked is something that I have written on the webpage. So if I say “I have just bought my Christmas presents!” on the website, i want a tweet button that when clicked the message comes up with “I have just bought my Christmas presents!” for the person to tweet.

[kewpintf]

Can anyone help

[benward]

You can set an extra attribute on your embed code: data-text=“I have just bought my Christmas presents!”, which sets the default text in the Tweet box when a user clicks.

Check out the Tweet Button documentation here: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/tweet-button#properties, you can also set a list of hashtags, and other fields to be included in the Tweet.

[microtype]

@benward is it possible to update the data-text attribute dynamically, passing the pre-written text in the tweet field that pops up as a variable instead of a static text? I am trying to make this very simple node.js and socket.io based chat to collaborate on a tweet and I would like to tweet the latest chat message at any given point. A way to collaborate on a tweet before it’s put publically posted on Twitter.

[niall]

[niall]