How to be a Twitter Bad Ass: #3 .5 Click to Tweet with Image

This post is not a standalone post. After I wrote part 3 of the Bad Ass series, I started playing with the way Twitter's Tweet Web Intent worked. It bugged me that I couldn't include an image.

If you don't know, Tweets with images get something like a gazillion more retweets. That's only a slight exaggeration. Suffice it to say that the difference is so extreme that text-only Tweets are not worth the paper they are written on.

You say they are not written on paper at all?

I know, that's exactly my point. 

A cancelled conference call left me with time on my hands. If you know me, you know that's not a good thing. I can get in a whole heap of trouble awfully fast.

I decided to tackle a Click-to-Tweet With Image instead. It's actually a lot easier than I thought. The fact that Image links count towards the 140 character count gave me a hint.

Here's what you will need

• Some way of building the link. I have a spreadsheet if you want it.
• You need to manually Tweet before you can create a link for that Tweet. See the main post for the procedure to do it right.
• An open word processing or Notepad document.
• Bitly.com or some other URL shortener (LinkedIn Only, beBee can handle long links)
• Tha-tha-that's all, Folks!

1 - Find that Tweet. Don't try to find it on your newsfeed unless you just Tweeted it. It's easier to find on your profile page. If it's been a while, redo it.

2 - Go to the "..." at the bottom-right. Click and select "Embed Tweet"
Ctrl-C to copy it. Ctrl-V to paste it into your text editor or word processing. It will look like this:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;Here&#39;s how to make one of these Click to tweet links. <a href="https://t.co/jtKb4h9sIc">pic.twitter.com/jtKb4h9sIc</a> &quot; <a href="https://t.co/dkCBl4QO5Y">https://t.co/dkCBl4QO5Y</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NLN?src=hash">#NLN</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/PaulCroubalian">@PaulCroubalian</a></p>&mdash; Paul Croubalian (@PaulCroubalian) <a href="https://twitter.com/PaulCroubalian/status/697151799275479040">February 9, 2016</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Twitter

Don't worry about what all that stuff means. It's not important to our purposes. All you need is that part in bold. It starts with "pic." and ends just before the "</a>."

It's the embeddable link to your image.

Just Copy it and Paste it at the end of the "text=" part of the link. Add "http://" at the beginning to let Twitter know it's a link.

Also, make sure you have  a space before and after or it won't be recognised as a
link.

And that's all she wrote.

A link to the main post would be too long to fit into LinkedIn's link place. You have to run it through your URL shortener.

For me, it became, http://bit.ly/1Wc1NNK. Here's the completed link.

Here's how to make a Click to Tweet link WTH AN IMAGE.

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