Viral Tweet Generator

pmolinero by pmolinero
Last updated: 05/26/2011

What Is Viral Tweet Generator?

Viral Tweet Generator is actually an uncomplicated twitter application that has been designed to give you the possibility of creating a viral wave of tweets through your followers as well as your followers followers.

How Does It Work?

Someone visits your website with the Viral Tweet Generator application installed. They will log in using TwitterOAuth and hit the "Tweet Now" button. This will send the message displayed within the form field of the Viral Tweet Generator applicaton out to their followers.

The success of sending the tweet is checked back from twitter.com and if everything went well they are redirected to the success.html page. This is the page where you have placed the thank you message, the download link to the free software or report or whatever you want to use as honorable bribe the get the user's tweet on your behalf.

In case someting went wrong, they will be redirected to the error.html, informing them that something went wrong. You might want to ask politely to go back and to try again.

How To Install?

Viral Tweet GeneratorRegister your application
Viral Tweet Generator uses TwitterOAuth. To use TwitterOAuth with the Twitter API you need TwitterOAuth.php, OAuth.php and client credentials. You can get client credentials by registering your application at https://twitter.com/apps.

Edit config.php
Edit config.php with the client credentials that you received from twitter.

Edit twitter.php

First open twitter.php and edit the variable $message. This is the tweet that will be sent afterwards to the followers of the person using your Viral Tweet Generator application.

Edit and rename success.html and error.html

Edit success.html and error.html. Success.html is the page the visitor is redirected to when sending of the tweet is confirmed. You may want to put at least a thank you message here or the link to the promised download you offered for sending the tweet. The error.html is used for the case that something went wrong. You can use this page to ask politely to try sending the tweet again.

Don't forget to rename success.html, otherwise it is easy for someone who knows about the Viral Tweet Generator, knows where to find your "carrot" without tweeting.

Edit html.inc.php

Second change html.inc.php. First of all you should ensure the message showed in the form is the same as the $message variable you edited before in Step.1.

Afterwards edit index.html the way that it appears as you want it to look, you might want to add something that encourages your visitor to tweet your message to their followers. Adding a video, a free report or a free piece of software to download might do its job very effective here.

To control the appearance of the Viral Tweet Generator you change the css.css file according your needs.

You might want to see: Twitter Instant Cash Machine for an example.

Upload to server

Now you can upload all of the files to your web hosting account. Make sure that the paths to all the files are correct.

What You Will Need?

A product to give away

The first thing what you need to make use of the Viral Tweet Generator is a poduct you want the world to know about. This can be anything from a video you would want to share, a report you want to give away for free or some piece of software you are going to offer for free.

Webhosting

Second you will need a webhosting with php enabled, where you can upload all the files as well as your landing page and your product. If you don't have a webhosting yet, I can recommend Hostgator. I am happy with them since some time already.

Domain

Third thing you will need is a domain name. As I am sure you know what a domain is, I am not going to go into details here. For ordering your domain I can recommend Moniker.

Twitter Account

Well, a twitter account is not really necessary for using Viral Tweet Generator, but why you might want to use a tool for your marketing, you are not already convinced of yourself. So in case that you don't have a twitter account yet, go ahead and register at twitter.com. Also feel free to follow me on twitter.

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Viral Tweet Generator V3

Viral Tweet Generator V3Although Viral Tweet Generator was already doing well in sending viral tweets, there was one feature that was still missing: The visitor sending the tweet was not able to automatically follow you on Twitter. This feature was implemented in Viral Tweet Generator V2, what made Viral Tweet Generator and even more outstanding product for sending viral tweets.

Due to some changes in the authentication process of Twitter, applications are now asked ot use TwitterOAuth for authentication. Viral Tweet Generator V3 does not ask the user for username and password anymore and is using TwitterOAuth for authentication, which is a safer and more secure way for the user to interact.

You can order Viral Tweet Generator right here or see a working demo here.

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