How to Get twitter Follow Button from Other Websites

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There are many websites offering twitter follow buttons but what if you like a twitter follow button at any other website and want to have the same ? Actually it can easily be done. Basically every twitter follow button is an image, hosted anywhere. After getting that image you can host it on your own hosting and can link it to your own twitter ID.

To explain the process we are taking mytweetspace.com as an example . Just go there and think you like the twitter follow button and want to have it on your website.

To get the same twitter follow button on your  website just follow these simple steps ;

1. The first part is to get or grab the image for twitter button. You can get the button image either by right clicking on the image and saving it on hard drive or you can get the image address from the source code of the page. Go to source code of the page and find  twitter.com/mytweetspaces. why i asked you to find this twitter address because when you click the button it will take you to this address. So it means this address is linked  to this image. So by searching the above address in the source code of the page you can find the link address for the button image.

so in this case the image address is http://www.mytweetspace.com/images/follow_us_btn.png. you can go there and have the image .

2. To insert the same twitter follow button in your blog or website you can either link the same image address with your twitter id or you can host this image 1st and then link the new image address with your twitter id . I will recommend the second method because in 1st case you don't have control over the image.

3. So host the twitter button image to your host. In case you are hosting your blog on free hosting like Blogger etc you can host to free image hosting like Photobucket or flickr etc.After hosting the image to your host get the link for the twitter button image.

4. place the following code in your blog or website at the place where you want to place your twitter follow button. Replace the Image address with the hosted twitter button image address & replace the twitter  ID with your twitter ID .

<a href="http://twitter.com/Your Twitter ID"><src="Image Address" title="Follow me on Twitter" /></a>

 

you can also change the title "follow me on twitter" with whatever you want. Also you can change the image height and width by inserting height = " " , width = " " after the image address.

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