This post is going to show you how easy it is to include a “tweet this” quote in your blog posts without using a plugin. Plugins are great, but they aren’t always necessary and can slow down your site’s load speed. By using the click to tweet’s free basic plan you will be able to quickly add tweet this quotes to your posts and be able to control the design of the tweet.
The end result of your tweet this quote will look something like this:
Learn how to include a “tweet this” quote in your blog posts! It’s super easy.
Tweet this!
Go ahead and test it out 😉
Let’s get started. Head over to clicktotweet.com and click to sign in with Twitter. Twitter will ask you to authorize the app and then you are in!
With the free version, you only get 5 dynamic tweet quotes, but I don’t really think they are necessary. The basic links work just fine and you can create as many as you’d like.
Fill out what you want the tweet to say and then click generate basic link.
Copy that link and then head to your blog.
In your post, write the quote you want readers to tweet and then add something like “click to tweet”, “tweet this”, etc. Highlight the tweet this text and then create a link. Paste your link in the URL field.
Tada!
When readers click the link, a new tab pops up with the quote.
Add style to your Tweet Quotes
Use last week’s post on block quotes or content boxes to make your Twitter quotes stand out.
It is so easy to create a “tweet this” link in your blog posts! <–Tweet this
Special thanks to my blogging friend Erika of Olyvia.co who first introduced me to clicktotweet.com. If you want help creating an irresistible online presence, you should check her blog out!
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Love this, tweet able quotes on my website worked really well. Must remember to do more of them. Thanks 🙂
That’s awesome that you get such a great response from tweet able quotes Candice. Hopefully this makes it easier for you to do them more often.
I’ve also seen a TweetDis pulugin to make cool tweetable quotes. Seems like it’s getting popular.
Yes, tweetable quotes are becoming popular, hope they help your twitter strategies.
The Social Warfare plugin is fantastic, just a heads up. But, you can easily hard code your links to Click To Tweet, too. You can add these as a text link or as the custom link from a graphic.
Here’s one I did recently:
http://twitter.com/home/?status=You Don’t HAVE TO Do Anything. Halt The Hustlers and Hucksters! via @gotweetsgo http://gocreativego.com/have-to-hustle/
LOL. Of course it pulled parts of the entire link to make smaller, inaccurate links. It’s all one link destination. 🙂
Great site. Looking forward to sharing your content!
Thanks for sharing. I like to do things without a plugin if it’s easy! Plus, this method works for platforms other than WordPress
Really glad I saw this post! It’s definitely something I’ll be using! Thank you!
Hopefully it helps you get some extra twitter interaction!
Thanks! I have been searching for how to do this!
You’re welcome!
Even easier using the Social Warfare plugin – I use it on my own site: http://warfareplugins.com?ref=23
It adds a little “click to tweet” button to your editor, to easily add click to tweets while editing a post on the fly. The main feature has to be the awesome sharing and share count addition. It can be seen on my own site (linked with my name).
Thanks for the tip. I try to limit the amount of plugins I use though!
This is brilliant, thank you so much. I had installed a plug in for this but it completely messed with my WordPress site. 🙁 This looks fantastically simple though, thank you. 🙂
Isn’t it so much easier than must plugins make it out to be? Glad this worked for you!
Great info! Glad I found your site, will sign up for your newsletter. I only have one problem…I see in your profile that you are a Seahawks fan…… 🙁
Well….nobody’s perfect….lol!!
May the best team win!!!!
Haha, I wondered if that would lose me some traffic. 😉 Don’t worry, no reference to the Hawks in the emails!
Awesome! I’ve seen these a lot recently and now can have a go myself 🙂 thanks!
Have you used them yet? Have you seen more twitter interaction?
I’m actually wondering if there’s some kind of special software out there for creating positive quotes. I noticed positive quotes get a lot of traffic from Pinterest. Do you know if there’s any kind of free software out there for creating positive quotes?
I know a lot of people use Canva or Picmonkey to create Pinterest quotes
I love this!! After seeing the feature on a couple other blogs, I really wanted to incorporate them in some of my posts, and now I know how! Thanks for being awesome.
– Bev
Let me know when you use them, I’d love to check it out! It’s a fun way to encourage people to tweet your content!
Hi Kristie,
“Tweet this” for blogs are very important now, i was searching for that actually, after reading some posts on tweet this option, i came to know that, it is geeky thing.
After reading your tutorial about this option, i am amazed, how simple it is, thanks for sharing this tip.
That’s my favorite part about the tweet this quotes, so easy! Hopefully they increase your twitter interactions!
I love that you did a whole tutorial out of this, Kristie! So helpful. (And so easy!) Thank you for being so kind to mention me, too. I really appreciate that. 🙂
I love how easy it is – that’s my favorite part!