I have been working on some code for a site that’s integrating a lot of social media links, and everything was going swimmingly until I noticed that the “Post to Twitter links were no longer working.

It turns out Twitter has made a few changes, but the fix was very easy.

All that was required to fix up the links was to replace instances of

http://twitter.com/home?status=

with

http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=

So.. begin with a call to the twitter javascript, so that your links will pop up in a nice neat window:

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”></script>

Then, if you’re using PHP, you’ll want to get the variable that defines the current page:

<?php $pageURL = $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].
$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]; ?>

 

And then finally, you can put that variable into your twitter link:

<a href=”http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=your+text+here+http%3A%2F%2F<?php echo $pageURL; ?>”>

And, YAY! It works.