News!! Putting A Follow Me On Twitter Push Clit Onto Your Blog

This article explains how to seat an official "Follow me on Twitter" push onto your blog.

"Follow-me" VS "Look-what-s/he said"

Previously, I explained the diferent approaches to linking your spider web log in addition to the social media.   In particular, I looked at the departure betwixt "follow me" in addition to "look what s/he said over there".

If your spider web log has a Twitter account, yous may desire to offering your readers a quick agency to follow your tweets  rom their ain twitter accounts.   This is an illustration of the "follow-me" approach, in addition to is what this article is about.

How to add together Follow Me on Twitter

1  Go to Twitter
If yous don't already accept a Twitter describe organisation human relationship for your spider web log (or for yourself, if yous spider web log is a personal one), yous may demand to sign-up alongside one.  Or if yous practice accept one, in addition to thence only log on.

2  Look at the buttons they offer
Today, yous larn to this past times clicking your profile picture, in addition to and thence choosing Widgets from the left sizebar.

Choose the Profile widget, in addition to live on inwards your Twitter refer equally the URL which yous would similar to embed - for illustration I entered     http://www.twitter.com/BloggerHAT

Choose Twitter Buttons

Choose Follow button.

(Last fourth dimension I updated this article, yous had to click Profile on the live on past times card bar, in addition to thence click Resources which was close the bottom of the right-hand panel.   Twitter seem deed this to a dissimilar house on their page fairly often, thence practice accept a proficient await around for it - or for Buttons or something similar if yous can't abide by the resources link.)


4  Copy the HTML that is provided

5  Go to your dashboard inwards Blogger, in addition to add the code to your blog.  

There are several ways to add 3rd political party HTML to your blog, depending on where yous desire to seat it.  A "follow me on" push is belike to a greater extent than appropriate inwards a gadget (option ane inwards that article) than in a house inwards your template where it relates to private posts.




What your readers see

If yous role a novel agency follow tool:

• A reader who is non logged inwards to Twitter when they click your push is asked to log in.
• After they accept logged inwards to Twitter, they are added to your Twitter followers list, in addition to the icon-label displayed on your spider web log changed from "follow" to "following".

If yous role the former agency button, then:

• When a reader clicks your Follow-me on Twitter button, Twitter loads inwards the electrical flow window.

• If they are already logged inwards to Twitter, they're shown a summary of your profile, alongside Follow, Add to List in addition to Block buttons.

• If they are non logged inwards to Twitter, they're shown a welcome message that describes Twitter in addition to invites them to sign-up or to log in.

An before approach

Previously yous could become to http://twitter.com/about/resources: in addition to at that topographic point abide by lots of useful things including Follow button options.   From hither yous could  choose Follow, in addition to set the options yous want:

• Check that your Twitter describe organisation human relationship refer is correctly inwards the User box (it should be, if you're logged inwards to the right twitter describe organisation human relationship at the time)

• Choose whether or non to demo your Twitter describe organisation human relationship name

• Choose a push size (large or not)

• Choose what linguistic communication to demo the push words ("follow ... on") in:

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