Web Intents provide flows for working with Tweets & Twitter Users: Tweet, Reply, Retweet, Like, and Follow. They make it possible for users to interact with Twitter content in the context of your site, without leaving the page or having to authorize a new app just for the interaction. Web intents are mobile web friendly, include native app handlers on iOS and Android when the Twitter app is installed, and are super easy to implement.
Working with Web Intents
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Web Intents are the simplest way to let people Tweet or follow Twitter accounts directly from your site. Web Intents automatically bring a viewer into the best logged-in experience to complete your specified action, including Tweet composers or Twitter profile views inside Twitter for iOS and Twitter for Android apps. If a viewer does not have a Twitter account they will have the opportunity to log in to Twitter or create an account before completing the originally-specified action. Web Intents do not require setting up a Twitter application, storing app credentials, or prompting a viewer for app permissions before posting.
The Twitter for Websites JavaScript will automatically fire appropriate JavaScript events when included on a webpage.
Web Intents cannot be loaded inside an iframe. A Twitter author must view the full webpage before deciding to author a new Tweet or Tweet action pre-populated by your specified Web Intent or follow a specified Twitter account.
Images for Twitter birds, hearts for liking, icons for replying & retweeting are all available on our Image Resources page. Consult our Display Requirements for tips on rendering Tweets and other Twitter resources.
If your audience speaks a language other than English, we recommend you use localized intents.
Get Started
Web Intents can be invoked flexibly through a light combination of JavaScript and HTML and are meant to be opened in a new window.
The easiest way to use intents is to include the Twitter for Websites JavaScript on any web page you wish to invoke an intent. If you’ve already set up the Tweet button, you’re already prepared for Web Intents.
Twitter Mobile Web
When combined with standard anchor tags and familiar iconography like the examples below, this JavaScript will automatically open a window of the appropriate size when clicked. You only need to load platform.twitter.com/widgets.js once.
Your Personalization and data settings give you more granular control over how Twitter makes use of your data, including how we personalize your Twitter experience and how we share non-public information with certain business partners. You can use these controls to better personalize your experience on Twitter, and to make informed choices about whether we collect certain data, how we use it, and how we share it. You can also disable all of these features with a single master setting found at the top of the screen.
Twitter Mobile Website
Where can I find my Personalization and data settings?
Twitter Mobile Web Login
- On desktop web, visit the Personalization and data settings page. This page can be accessed both when you are logged in to Twitter and when you are logged out.
- The settings you see when you are logged in to your Twitter account will apply whenever you are logged in to that account on any device, whether web or mobile.
- The settings you see when you are logged out only affect your current browser, and only when you are not logged in to Twitter.
- On Twitter for iOS and Android: Tap the icon of your profile photo in the upper-left corner, select Settings and privacy, select Privacy and safety, and tap Personalization and data.