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

Chints

Hello,

I understand this would be the wrong thread, but this is the closest one I have found on the forum, and I have exactly the same query as @georgergb here.

With the difference being that I would like to change the text that goes with the Social Share - Share on Whataspp button.

@Castor , you reckon you could help me out with that, maybe a similar workaround to potentially change/edit the text that goes into the Share on Whataspp button intent.

Thanks a ton.

Castor

Hi Chints,

The WhatsApp social works the same way, but with a different api:
https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=

so you can use the three steps I explained above, but the starting link should be the above.

garronr

Thank you Castor for addressing this. For some reason, the Social Sharing: Share on Twitter works -- bringing the proper URL and text (that I want to change). However, when I use the Website URL function (https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=via%20@nondocmedia), everything after the ? comes through as a blank tweet with the attribution, but the URL is not passing. In fact, "https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=" or even "https://twitter.com/intent/tweet" does not pass through at all. Have you seen this before? Is there a use of the rel attributes that might help? I realize that troubleshooting this might not be a small issue, and may require more data.

Castor

Hi garronr ,

I am not sure entirely what your issue is. The first link you sent seems to work for me and opens a tweet with the text "via @nondocmedia". Also it works as button url. Could you clarify?

garronr

Castor Thank you for your response. The @nondocmedia is showing up, but it is a blank post, and the point is that I am tweeting an article (post). That information is not coming through. Looking into another workaround.

Castor

Hi garronr,

If you want to tweet an article, your link should look something like this:

https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=${ARTICLE_URL}&text=${TWEET_CONTENT}

Where you should replace ${ARTICLE_URL} and ${TWEET_CONTENT} with your desired values. (of course, first convert the values to URI-compatible strings using this website!)