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Today we have a special treat in store: Cute Twitter Social Icons & “Tweet This” Code.

Twitter is fast becoming one of the hottest and most important social networks. This code allows your visitors to tweet about your post which can greatly increase your sites traffic.

Please let me know who created these birds so I can credit him / her.

The Icons

Right click and “Save Image As” to your theme directory in: images/sharing

100px x 48px Twitter Icon

100px x 48px Twitter Icon

100px x 48px Twitter Icon

48px x 48px Twitter Icon

48px x 48px Twitter Icon

48px x 48px Twitter Icon

48px x 48px Twitter Icon

48px x 48px Twitter Icon

48px x 48px Twitter Icon

48px x 48px Twitter Icon

The Code

Copy and paste this into notepad to strip it of WordPress formatting or you will get errors.

<a href=”http://twitter.com/home?status=Currently reading <?php the_permalink(); ?>” title=”Click to send this page to Twitter!” target=”_blank”><img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/images/sharing/your-icon-name.png” width=”48″ height=”48″ alt=”Tweet This!” /></a>

You can place this code in your single.php file before this line:
<?php the_content(); ?>

16 Responses

  1. They are adorable. That little blue bird has become such a major icon lately.

  2. nishal says:

    great icons, especially the one used in your bookmark bar. btw, is that a widget?

  3. Joe says:

    These are fun looking twitter icons. Nice work :)

  4. admin says:

    Nishal,
    Great question, I’m writing a post soon about Social Networking and creating complete icon sets soon.

    Thanks so much Joe!

  5. michael says:

    Some of those icons were made over at productivedreams. i’m not really sure where the others came from.

    http://www.productivedreams.com/its-twitter-time-free-vector-icon-set/

  6. Veronica says:

    still doesn’t work for me (sigh……)
    Trying to add to frontpage website and google blogger.
    Oh well

  7. admin says:

    Make sure you don’t have slanting ‘ or ” characters that will break the code.
    Try pasting the code into notepad to strip it of any styling Word Press adds to it before you paste it.

  8. T-Law says:

    Great icons. Follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/iniwoonet :)

  9. I guess I’ll mike 10 more twitter icons.

  10. Bill Wynne says:

    I figuring out how to use Twitter this was really helpful. Thanks for the information.

  11. Zenbae says:

    Does this work for blogspot. I wanna try…

  12. Pop Art says:

    thank you for your icons. very helpful

  13. Oh these are awesome! Thanks for sharing them so generously.

  14. How did you add automatic URL shortening to the permalink?

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