Home/ Questions/Q 9142213
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-17T09:44:52+00:00

I need to create multiple tweet buttons, after the page has loaded. Each button

  • 0

I need to create multiple tweet buttons, after the page has loaded. Each button will be tweeting a url that is different from the page that they sit on. I understand that I need to append an appropriate data-url attribute to each tweet button, to achieve this.

But, the Twitter API doesn’t seem to provide a straight-forward way to do the above, dynamically, using Javascript, after page load. I’ve seen a couple of suggestions on StackOverflow and other sites, which hint at re-loading the widgets.js script whenever a new tweet button needs to be created: How can I dynamically create a tweet button?

Are there any other options to do this?

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    You can automatically compose a tweet on behalf of the user by redirecting them to a URL that looks like the following:

    http://twitter.com/home?status=Hey+check+out+this+cool+site+http://www.stackoverflow.com/

    So in answer to your question – if i’ve understood correctly – you could just create a couple of different anchors with that link as the HREF:

    <a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Hey+check+out+this+cool+site+http://www.stackoverflow.com/" target="_blank">Tweet about Link a</a>

    EDIT:

    Upon further investigation, it’s actually pretty easy to use the tweet button with count for different URLs by setting some data attributes

    I knocked up a quick jsfiddle for you: http://jsfiddle.net/rghCG/

    More info about what you can do with the tweet button: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/tweet-button

    • 0