How to Create a Twitter Status Retweet Link
                    
                    
                        
                        by 
                        Doug
                        
                        
                        Updated March 19, 2009
                     
                    
                    
    
        
                    
                
	
                    
                          
                                
                                   
                               
                                
		
                                      
                                    
                                            Twitter status update from retweet link on a web page.
                                            
                                            
                                     
                              
                                
                                
                            
                            
                     
                
 
                
                
                     Here's how you can create a Twitter status link, so users can quickly retweet your message from a hyperlink on your website.
Use the following basic HTML code:
<a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=RT - Your message here!" target="_blank">Tweet this link!</a>
The basic link format is:
http://twitter.com/home?status=Your message here
Here's an actual live twitter status retweet link:
Tweet this cool link
Note: Just make sure your Retweet status message is no longer than 140 characters.