How to Brand your Tweets with Your Website’s URL
Branding, Social Media, Twitter — By Matthew Tommasi on 9 March 2010 10:55 am
[EDIT - 01 July 2010 - Please see my post on Branding your Tweets with your Website's URL using MarketMeTweet (Tweetbrand's successor)]
[EDIT- 19 June 2010 - I have received a number of emails from people advising that this tool is no longer free. After emailing MarketMeTweet about their tool TweetBrand, I received the following reply,
Last night tweetbrand stopped working, so we had to redirect temporarily, but here's the deal with tweetbrand: we will be replacing it with another free tool but we can't support it anymore. It's not our best work (whereas MarketMeTweet is very thought out) and it winds up getting more support requests than we can handle mostly because people don't love following videos 
. We haven't made a big deal about it, and up until this week we were letting people download it, but with all the fail whales that Twitter was experiencing with the world cup (see article on mashable about that) it's been problematic. ]
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Have you noticed whenever you send out a tweet, it is branded with the Twitter client you’ve used, to send out that tweet?
Whether you use CoTweet, Hootsuite, Seesmic, Tweetdeck, Twitter’s Web interface, a mobile Twitter client, or the hundreds of other Twitter clients.. every time you send out a tweet you are advertising their product.. with a link back to their website,
Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could capitalise on this valuable piece of web real estate, by branding your tweets with your own business’s name.. including a link back to your own website, blog or Facebook page?
Well.. you can!
And I will show you how..
The guys at MarketMeTweet have created a Twitter client called TweetBrand which enables you to,
- Brand your tweets with your own name
- Insert a link back to your own website
Tammy Fennell gives intro video to TweetBrand,
Twitter Keys
Once you have created a TweetBrand account and logged in.. you will be asked to sign-in to Twitter and get your consumer key and secret key,
On the Applications on Twitter page, click on Register a new application,
On the Register an Application page.. fill out all relevant details.
Make sure you choose the following settings,
- Application Type = Client
- Default Access Type = Read & Write
- Use Twitter for login = Yes (ie checked)
Once you are done click on <Save>,
Once you have successfully registered an application you will be given your,
- Consumer key
- Consumer secret
Make sure you leave this window open as you will need to copy your keys.
Install TweetBrand
You now need to download and install TweetBrand,
Click on <Open>,
Click on <Install>,
Click on <Continue>,
Setup TweetBrand
Enter your TweetBrand email address and password,
Enter your Consumer Key and your Consumer Secret that you generated from Twitter prior,
Now you need to add your Twitter account.. click on <Add a new account>,
The next thing that needs to be done is to allow this application to connect to your Twitter account and also to generate a PIN number.
Click on the blue <Sign in with Twitter> button,
Enter your Twitter username and your Twitter password,
Click on <Allow>,
You will be given your own PIN number.
Copy this PIN number,
Return to TweetBrand and enter,
- Your Twitter username
- The PIN number you have just copied
Click on <Close>,
Done!
You have successfully setup your own Twitter application.
This video also runs through the setup process which you may find helpful,
Personal Branded Tweets
Test this out by typing in a tweet.. then click on the <Send Tweet> button,
Your tweets are now branded with your business name and a link back to your website!
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25 Comments
If I’m right you should buy a price plan in marketmetweet in order to get tweetbrand, isn’t it?
Hi Israel
It looks like the folk at MarketMeTweet have some technical issues with TweetBrand and have since removed it from their site.
Please read Tammy’s response to an email I had sent her regarding this.. she is the owner of MarketMeTweet.
Thanks Matthew! I actually dropped you an email yesterday so if you have a chance give me a reply and we can chat. You rock!
Hey Israel – yes, Tweetbranding is a major function of MarketMeTweet, but you get a lot more than JUST branding
~Tammy
Hi Tammy what is the ‘lot more’ you get from Marketmetweet that would incentivize me to go for it?
Here’s a video
http://marketmetweet.com/blog/first-look-at-marketmetweet-v2-video/
Hi Everyone, I wanted to apologize for the tweetbrand page not redirecting as of late. We had some problems with the app and we’re trying to get it back, but it really wasn’t our best work, whereas our FULL app, MarketMeTweet, is. I am so sorry, Matthew wrote such a tremendous article, but software moves fast and things do change. If you have any questions let me know, and SocialMediaGuide has been in contact with me recently so hopefully will be able to bring you more news soon!
Best,
Tammy
great application but TweetBrand is not free…
It looks like the people at MarketMeTweet have some technical issues with TweetBrand and have since removed it from their site.
Please read Tammy’s response to an email I had sent her regarding this.. she is the owner of MarketMeTweet.
Am I to late? Because it isnt so FREE for me?!
It looks like the folk at MarketMeTweet have some technical issues with TweetBrand and have since removed it from their site.
Please read Tammy’s response to an email I had sent her regarding this.. she is the owner of MarketMeTweet.
Can you confirm that if you do this you can not use tools like HootSuite, Tweetdeck, or Objective Marketer. It does look like a valuable tool, however, these tools are very useful for other things.
Yes you can still use other Twitter clients.
See that’s really the issue with Tweetbrand which was part of the reason we pulled it in favor of marketmetweet… With marketmetweet you get a full twitter client and branding, otherwise you have to keep switching
Matt, I couldn’t get this to work. It fails at the point just after Setup Tweet Brand > “Enter your Consumer Key and your Consumer Secret that you generated from Twitter prior”. It goes straight past the popup where you should enter your Consumer Key and Consumer Secret. Bugger.
Hi David
Not sure why it fails. Try contacting their support at http://marketmetweet.com/contact/
Thx for the comment.
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No worries and thanks for the comment.
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This has been sitting in my Google Reader for nearly two weeks now but finally got around to doing this. Thanks as always for the easy-to-follow instructions.
This is really great! Congrats to MarketMeTweet, and this is also a great post.
Gday mate.. thanks for the comment.
I hear exactly what you are saying.. I think at some point in the future the other big Twitter clients will bring this functionality/option on board.
But until then, this one is the way to go if you want to brand your own tweets.
Yes that is correct.. currently…
To send out tweets that has your own site's URL, you have to use this Twitter client.
That will most certainly change in the future.. as demand for this increases I'm sure the other big Twitter clients will bring this functionality on board..
Thanks for the comment!
Thanks for writing about this. I've seen it before, but my understanding is that you can't use it with HootSuite, TweetDeck, or any of the other apps for managing Twitter. Is this the case?
And thanks for a wonderful blog — I've been reading it for some time now!
Thanks very much!
And glad you got some value from this post!
Cheers
Matt
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First time I have accessed your site. Thought the Twitter brand article excellent, will continue to follow you