Below are the easily repeatable steps on how to create a hyperlink for your blog that will allow someone else to share your blog on Twitter with your personal description.
You need to ensure that your entire message is within 140 characters. The easiest way to do this is by typing it in on Twitter, but don't hit submit.
You'll need a URL shortner or sweetener, my favorite is bit.ly found at: www.bit.ly. You'll need to sign up for it, but it's free. Bit.ly gives you some tracking and reporting ability, there are many other Shortner's out there. One user pointed out that if you have google apps on your website you can have your own shortner.
You'll want to shorten the URL to your blog post, since you only get 140 characters.
After writing your retweet you'll need to make it compatible as a URL. URL's don't seem to like spaces. :-) You can do this manually by typing, "%20" without the parenthesis everywhere you typed a space making sure there are no spaces. For example: The Quick Brown Fox; would change to: The%20Quick%20Brown%20Fox
or a much easier way is to copy the information you typed into Twitter, and convert using a URL encoding converter at: http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm The converter is at the very bottom of the page.
After you have converted your text that you want in your retweet you'll put the following in front of the URL acceptable info, http://twitter.com/home?status=
You can get a free icon's to use to let people know to share your blog on twitter at:
http://www.webdesign.fm/free-twitter-icons-happy-birds/
The steps:
1. Create your blog posting
2. Post in Edit format to Active|Rain or your favorite blog hosting format.
3. Copy the URL for your posted blog
4. Sweeten the URL to your blog using bit.ly or your favorite sweetener
5. Go to twitter, write a brief description of your post and add the sweetened URL from Step 3. Make sure the total is under 140 characters. After you get the information down to 140 characters copy the entire information.
6. Convert your typed message from step 5 into a compatible URL. Using http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm Copy the resulting output.
7. Go back to your original blog post, and put in a hyperlink starting with, http://twitter.com/home?status= "followed by the copied information from Step 6.
8. Post your new easy tweetable blog.
Here is a screen shot of what someone else would see when they click on my Share on Twitter:
Try mine out below. Just click on the Share on Twitter bird.
Let me know how it works out for you.
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After writing this I found what may be an even simpler approach in www.tweetsmarter.com
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