Post a message input directly to user's twitter from website

[user473]

Hi all,

I am new to wix and and velo coding here. I would like to create a little input box on my site where users can input any messages and those messages will be automatically posted to their own twitters as tweets with a hashtag to my site, is that possible? If so, would someone be kind enough to show me how?

Thanks again

[anthony]

Here’s some resources that can help you get started:

• Twitter’s resource on what their click to tweet links/url parameters look like: Guides | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform
• You’d want to use the url examples like: https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Hello%20world
• encodeURI() - JavaScript | MDN to make sure the URL you make is properly encoded
• value - Velo API Reference - Wix.com to get the value that a user input to the text input box
• onClick - Velo API Reference - Wix.com to do an action when a user clicks a button
• to - Velo API Reference - Wix.com to redirect a user to the tweet URL

So you’ll make a button that when clicked:

• Gets a user input value from the input text box
• Adds it to the end of the string: https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=
• encodes that string so it’s a valid URL
• Redirects the user to the tweet url

[user473]

@anthony Thank you, I will have a look at them!