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Free Twitter badges for your website or blog

Posted by dianaf86 • 2/09/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: badges, design, follow, Free, free graphics, freebies, graphics, twitter

Hi everyone! Are you on Twitter? If so, I've created a large selection of Twitter badges you can put on your website/blog to encourage your readers to follow you. Best of all, they're free! :-)

ustandout.com/index.php/twitter/free-twitter-badges/

Stumbles, Diggs, Tweets, etc. are MUCH appreciated.

User Comments

2/12/09

syawal

Thanks

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2/12/09

timethief

They are great! Thanks so much

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2/12/09

dianaf86

No problem! I'll be making more later in the weekend (yay for 3-day weekends). I'll update my twitter when they're posted. twitter.com/dianafreedman

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1. 2/12/09
  
  timethief
  
  I tweeted this and I stumbled it
2. 2/12/09
  
  dianaf86
  
  Thanks!!
2/12/09

ThriftShopRomantic

Yup, I Tweeted as well. (And am already using my nifty Twitter badge-- far superior to the text link I'd had!)

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1. 2/12/09
  
  dianaf86
  
  Thanks! It looks great on your cabbages and kings site!
2/12/09

Lightbulb

Very nice and useful. I tweeted as well. Nice work and nice blog!

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2/12/09

salomey5

I read that post of yours a couple of days ago, Diana, and your badges look great.
Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to use any of them on my free Wordpress blog...

Nice work though!

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1. 2/12/09
  
  dianaf86
  
  I think you can add it by using the Widget feature. Here's how:
  
  1. Save the badge of your choice from my site
  2. Go to your blog dashboard. In the left-hand navigation, click Media --> Add new
  3. Choose the file from your computer to upload, save all changes.
  4. Once uploaded, click "view" on that image in your list of media.
  5. Right click the image, and select Properties. Copy the URL where that image is located in your Wordpress files.
  6. Go back to your blog dashboard, click Appearance --> widgets
  7. Add the Text widget (Arbitrary HTML)
  8. In this widget, type in:
  OPEN BRACKETa href="twitter.com/USERNAME"CLOSE BRACKET OPEN BRACKETimg src="PASTE URL HERE"CLOSE BRACKET
  (OPEN BRACKET = < and CLOSE BRACKET = >)
  9. Save changes. All done!
  
  Let me know if this works for you!
  
  I'll make an instructional post for wordpress.com and wordpress.org users in the next couple days, since I've received this question a couple of times.
2. 2/12/09
  
  salomey5
  
  I can?!! Because I spotted a couple that I really like.
  
  I did give it a shot the other day, and made it all the way to step #4... Then I didn't have a clue where to go from there, so I just linked my Twitter in my blogroll and left it at that.
  
  But I'll sure give it another shot. There is a little blue badge that I think would look great...
  
  Thank you for your help. I'll let you know if I work it out.
3. 3/13/09
  
  salomey5
  
  Hey, I know your reply is almost a month old, but I tried what you said, and (afteraridiculousamountoftime) I got my button to work!
  
  Thank you so much!
4. 8/25/09
  
  dianaf86
  
  Haha awesome! Here's my reply many months later... I'm glad it worked for you!
3/12/09

creemos

Nice work! "creemos"

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3/12/09

rocketrobin

They are very good :-)

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3/12/09

dianaf86

Thanks! I'll be adding some more "follow us" badges soon. Instead of just "follow" and "follow me."

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8/27/09

prospor7

thanks

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