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Amazingly, this is quite a simple thing to do, and will work as long as the person who clicks on it is logged into their Twitter account. All you need to do is add the following as a link to your site.

http://twitter.com/home/?status=text+to+post

This will add any text that you put into the users What are you doing? box. They get the chance to accept or decline the text so it is a good way to advertise your site without forcing anything on the user. If they like the page they will accept.

Because this is a URL you will need to encode it properly in order for Twitter to understand it. If you are running PHP then you will want to use the urlencode() function.

echo 'http://twitter.com/home/?status='.urlencode('text to post');

You can also put in URLs

echo 'http://twitter.com/home/?status='.urlencode('I read http://www.talkincode.com/');

Remember that you can’t put in more than 140 characters, so if you have a long URL then visit tinyurl.com first and convert it to something a little shorter. Basically, you can turn something like this:

http://www.talkincode.com/how-to-get-people-to-post-your-site-to-their-twitter-account-663.html

Into this.

http://tinyurl.com/62l65b

Which gives you 115 more characters to play with.

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