Here's a statistic that might fool you: 500 million tweets are sent every day. Obviously, for users who tweet only a few or even a dozen times a day, what are the chances that someone will see your articles in the midst of all this incessant activity?
If you use Twitter as a tool in your marketing on your website's social media, that's a bit of a daunting idea, isn't it? The fact that you spend all this time posting great content on your WordPress site and running awesome promotions, only to have a very small percentage of Twitter followers who won't see all of your posts. Don't be discouraged though.
What if I told you that you could get customers and other fans of your brand to tweet on your behalf, increasing the number of tweets linking to your WordPress site on Twitter? You can do this by drawing attention to special text snippets on each page or post. Then you allow your visiteurs to share these snippets by making it as easy as clicking a single button.
This is called the click-to-tweet.
Click-to-tweet works similar to user-generated content. Basically, you get real clients and followers to share your WordPress content on Twitter; efficiently, by expanding your reach on the platform without having to do an excessive amount of work yourself.
New to click-to-tweet functionality or unsure of how to add this type of content styling to your WordPress site? Then this guide is for you, because I will offer you some tools that you can use for that.
5 WordPress plugins to add the Click-to-Tweet feature on WordPress
Although you can download theTwitter icon on their website and embed it in your content, you still have to program the click-to-tweet functionality into your text...and it's a bit of a pain. So why not use a WordPress Plugin that simplifies click-to-tweet?
Here are your options:
Better Click to Tweet
This is the most popular of the click-to-tweet plugins (the ones created specifically for click-to-tweet) and it works beautifully. All you have to do is wrap the "Better Click to Tweet" shortcode around the text you want to make tweetable and then your "click-to-tweet" box is created.
Social Share Buttons
If you are already using the Social Share Buttons plugin on your WordPress site, then you are in luck! The set to premium level why WordPress Plugin includes a customizable click-to-tweet box design that looks really usable. So if you like what Better Click to Tweet does, but want more control over customization, ou if you just want to install a plugin that does both social sharing and click to tweet, you can use this plugin.
Social Warfare
Social Warfare is another general social sharing plugin that also includes click-to-tweet functionality. The good thing about this one is that you can customize a lot of them. For example, if you want to use a different URL in the share link (for example, to send people to a special landing page instead of the source link), you can. You can also design your own "click to tweet" dialog box if you want it to better suit your site design.
Sumo Hightlighter
Here is an example of WordPress Plugin which allows you to add click-to-tweet highlight functionality to your site. However, rather than highlighting text for your visiteurs, you can give them the power to highlight any text string on your site and tweet it immediately to their Twitter followers. Pretty cool, right? You can also customize the design to match your branding, which is always a good thing.
Tweetable Shortcode
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The Tweetable Shortcode v.2 plugin is just one more option you have for tweeting subtle highlights and an instantly recognizable Twitter logo to text on your WordPress site. It's incredibly easy to create on the dashboard. Simply select the tweetable text in your editor, add the shortcode using your toolbar options, and customize.
That's it for this plugin list. Hope you find a plugin that will help you.
