How to Create Links for Social Networking Sites

There are many tools out there for sharing links with social networking sites like Twitter, del.ico.us, facebook and so on. The problem is, it seems they all use JavaScript. I started poking around to figure out how to easily generate my own links without the use of javascript. I needed to make links to be used in a marketing email and I didn’t want to have to use any javascript to do it. I couldn’t find a single resource to help me out. After some digging, I figured out the url variables for a few popular social networking sites. Here is what I found. Enjoy.

Note: If you are just looking for a simple widget to add to your blog or website, I recommend AddThis or TellAFriend.

Twitter
How To: Just append the twitter url with the variable ‘status’ and tweet any text and urls you want. Try it. Example code:

http://twitter.com/home?status=create+links+for+social+networking+sites+http://www.angrypirate.com/wordpress/2009/04/22/how-to-generate-links-for-social-networking-sites

Facebook
How To: Append the following facebook url with the url you want to share Try it. Example code:

http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://angrypirate.com/wordpress/2009/04/22/how-to-generate-links-for-social-networking-sites/

Google Bookmarks
How To: Google Bookmarks has variables for the url (bkmk=), title (title=), and description (annotation=) so you can include a snippet of text Try it. Example code:

http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk=http://angrypirate.com/wordpress/2009/04/22/how-to-generate-links-for-social-networking-sites/&title=create+links+for+social+networking+sites&labels=dog,ohs&annotation=Iâ??ve been having trouble getting Mississippi to go in her crate. She obviously was punished by being put in a crate. It seemed she just wonâ??t go in the thing no matter how good the reward...

mySpace
How To: Add link and title by using u= and t=. Try it. Example code:

http://www.myspace.com/Modules/PostTo/Pages/?l=3&u=http://angrypirate.com/wordpress/2009/04/22/how-to-generate-links-for-social-networking-sites/&t=create+links+for+social+networking+sites

Digg
How To: Digg uses url= and title= variables. Try it. Example code:

http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://angrypirate.com/wordpress/2009/04/22/how-to-generate-links-for-social-networking-sites/&title=create+links+for+social+networking+sites

reddit
How To: reddit uses url= and title= variables. Try it. Example code:

http://angrypirate.com/wordpress/2009/04/22/how-to-generate-links-for-social-networking-sites/&title=create+links+for+social+networking+sites

StumbleUpon
How To: reddit uses a url= variable. Wasn’t able to find any other variables for adding title or other field values. Try it. Example code:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://angrypirate.com/wordpress/2009/04/22/how-to-generate-links-for-social-networking-sites

Del.ico.us
How To: del.ico.us uses url= and title= variables. Try it. Example code:

http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://angrypirate.com/wordpress/2009/04/22/how-to-generate-links-for-social-networking-sites/&title=create+links+for+social+networking+sites


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