Question

Just a quick one, how can i tweet to a user direct from an a href link on my site? example:

<a href="twitter.com/user?newtweet=">@name</a>

Hope you understand what i’m after! Not sure if it can be done

Answer 1

I believe the closest you will get is using the Twitter Tweet buttons, unless you want to write your own backend-service that you can access through HTTP GET, which in turn will have to interact with Twitter through their API.

Using the above referenced code-generator, you would get a code that looks something like this, where you would have to swap c_eliasson which is my Twitter-handle with the one you would like to use instead:

<a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?screen_name=c_eliasson" class="twitter-mention-button" data-related="c_eliasson">Tweet to @c_eliasson</a>

<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script>

I would recommend using the code-generator though, as it gives you some additional opportunities to customize the look and behavior of it.