Badges, buttons and Widgets - Oh My! Methods to link Twitter and website

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There is a simple solution for Twitter users who want the visitors to their Web site or blog to follow on Twitter as well. It is to find and get a Twitter badge, button, or the widget to place on their site Web or blog. These options to provide a hypertext link click from the Web/blog site on the proper profile account on Twitter. This profile of Twitter, the person who has read the Web/blog site can then choose follow the account on Twitter.

Badges are cute, clickable icons that can be placed on a Web site or blog to encourage visitors to also follow a Twitter account which relates to it. Badges usually display the last Tweet sent from the selected Twitter account. If the badge is clicked on, it will generally open account on Twitter profile so that the reader can easily follow. Visit twitterbadge.com will offer a selection of the origins of the badge, customization to match the account Twitter, and copies of results HTML code to paste into your blog or Web site.

Thebuttons are like badges in that they are clickable icons that take the reader to a particular Twitter account, they can choose to follow. However, the buttons do not display the tweets. Possible sites to check Twitter and editable code buttons options include twitterbuttons.net, twittericon.com and twittericons.org. If they do not provide a desirable choice, try to search on the internet for "twitter" or "Twitter icon" button to find more options.

Widgets are a means of professional looking to place multiple tweets to a particular Twitter account on a web page or blog site. This is especially true if the page is subject of the person or company tweets are of as a widget in profile will have a link on behalf of readers can click to easily follow on Twitter after they review tweets a few. Other widget options include being able to launch a Twitter search without being on Twitter, share Tweets on a topic related to the web or blog content in a selected list of Twitter, or sharing Favorites Tweets of a chronology of personal account. Go to twitter.com/widgets to easily create a widget and get the code.

Twitter badges, buttons or widgets are an easy solution for users of your blog or Twitter who want their Web site visitors to follow on Twitter too. With one of these solutions, a visitor of a particular Web/blog site can simply click to follow the selected Twitter account.







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