Can I change tweet text

georgergb

Hi, I was wondering how I alter the text of the tweet that gets shared. It picks up the right URL etc but the default tweet itself (Hey! etc) doesn’t look right.

Thanks

Castor

Hi @georgergb ,

This is indeed default text that you can't change. In the future we will look to enable the option to change this text using the dashboard. For now, you can get around it however, by manually inserting the correct API link.

Go to this website, and insert the text you want as tweet in the top box, click encode. Copy the result.

Text such as "Hello Buttonizer Community!" will not work in URLs, and thus will be converted to "Hello%20Buttonizer%20Community%21"

Choose URL button action
Use the following URL as action: "https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=" and add the decoded URI you copied earlier to the end.

Using the earlier example, the action would become:
"https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Hello%20Buttonizer%20Community%21", which would share the tweet "Hello Buttonizer Community!"

Let me know if this works for you and if you have any questions.

georgergb

Hi Castor,

Brilliant, your suggestion worked perfectly.

Thank you so much for your help,

George