Bonus Guest Post! GoodNCrazy-Carissa Rogers

Carissa Rogers of GoodNCrazy.com was my Friendly Friday swap friend a couple weeks back, and because life was crazy she wasn't able to finish this tutorial that she was working on for you all! She is a Tweeting fool, and has tried to teach me some of the ropes, and has introduced me to a whole bunch of fun friends on Twitter. If you are looking for some guidance in the Twitter world-Carissa is awesome. Follow her @CarissaRogers and check out this tutorial!

"In my former life I was a molecular biologist. In my current life I am the chief researcher of bloggy html, parenting dos (and some don'ts), new recipes and for spice I pretend to be a photographer...I started blogging in February of 2008. I love the bloggy world where I share and connect with thousands of people about the happy, the sad, the rotten, and the silly! I have 3 crazy kids and one good husband."

Time for a Twitter Twute

Have you seen giveaways that include the HTML link for a one step 'click to tweet' a sentence? My last giveaway utilized this method. (Scroll down that post to see the example.)


Other reasons your readers might need to click and share a pre-set tweet:

1. Say you are wishing a friend 'happy birthday' and want your readers to help share it too.
2. Maybe you have a bloggy friend who is new to twitter and attempting to gather a following? You write up a post including the tweet that mentions the username of your friend and tell everyone she's awesome and worth following.
3. Or you are sharing a Fab-U-lous tutorial and would like everyone to see it and share it?

• In each case you write out your 140 character 'tweet' including the words SHORT URL (if you want them to be able to link back to your post).

• Say my tweet is: PLACE YOUR TWEET SENTENCE HERE: SHORT URL RT
  (for example)
  

• Next highlight and select your tweet-words, and click the hot link button adding in the code below (altered with your sentence for the red words):

http://twitter.com/home?status=PLACE YOUR TWEET SENTENCE HERE: SHORT URL RT

Now for the tricky part. You have to publish your post before you can make a shortened url. (I like Tr.im for shortening URLs.)

• Simply publish your post, then immediately make a shortened url of your post (not your homepage your ACTUAL post). Copy the short URL. (Control-C)

• You will have two places to replace the new URL where you still have SHORT URL written.

• Go into your html code editor and use control-F to search for the part where you left SHORT URL, replace it with your actual shortened URL. Then hit search again and replace it a second time.

If you like this Tutorial, feel free to share it with your Tweeps!

Learn to create the HTML for a Tweet This Sentence. http://tr.im/J6rl.