Re:How to write a programming book
by chrisa on Saturday May 23, 2020 @09:13AM
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You can't actually send a tweet at the push of a button (unless you're connected with twitter oauth with the right permissions), but what you can do (and that button does) is opens the tweet composer pre-filled with the quote, ready for you to then just hit "Tweet"
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I used to do that on my blog. Example: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/team_building.html
Stopped doing it as I got negative feedback about it being annoying. I never tracked how many tweets I get out of it though. So if you aim for popularity (unlike me) it might still be worth it.
It was one of the big reasons I used RestructuredText as markup language for my static website generator. It is extensible enough to make these tweet-blocks with just:
.. tweetable :: Psychological Safety is THE core factor for Great Teams says Google