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Add a Twitter Icon to your Blog

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I don’t spend as much time as I’d like to on Twitter, but it really has established itself as a great tool - with many different uses. One of those uses for me is utilizing it to announce my posts automatically so any of my followers know when I’ve published on my blog. It’s automated utilizing the Twitter Updater Plugin for WordPress.

It’s gotten so mainstream that I decided to add it to my collection of Feed, Email and Mobile icons in my sidebar. Try as I might to find an icon, though, I didn’t come across any on the net. So - I decided to make my own:

Feel free to download all the Twitter Icons and even the Illustrator file I used to design them. If you’d like the sidebar background image with the twitter icon I’m using, it’s available here. Since I’m not a graphic artist, I don’t mind where and how you use them or if you improve them. Hopefully, Twitter doesn’t either!

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15 Comments »

Comment by Steve Woodruff
2008-05-10 15:29:17

Great job! Very generous to share like this…
Comment by Douglas Karr
2008-05-10 18:47:12

Thanks! It’s no fun keeping this stuff to yourself, Steve!
 
 
2008-05-10 22:49:16

[...] Add a Twitter Icon to your Blog :: The Marketing Technology Blog - Douglas makes a gift to the community of some nice Twitter icons that are free to use - Thanks Douglas. [...]
 
Comment by zania
2008-05-11 20:11:19

Hi Douglas,
Thanks very much for sharing these icons. They were just what I was looking for to make a change from the ‘Twitter Boxes’ I have been using up until now.
I’ve added an icon already in the sidebar of one of my blogs and it looks good.
Thanks for sharing!
 
Comment by Michael Katz
2008-05-12 02:23:17

I just added this plugin and apart from not remembering my email address that I registered my twitter account with (doh!) it worked like a treat once I put the right one in. Thank you.
 
Comment by Patric Welch
2008-05-12 08:03:00

Love the icon! Who knows, maybe you just created the new Twitter icon. I’ll have to see if I can get this squeezed into the new web site before its launch later this week.
 
Comment by Thomas
2008-05-13 05:37:03

Love the icons, thanks for sharing them.
 
Comment by Wick
2008-08-14 22:27:42

Thanks for the icon. I am using it on my site!
 
Comment by Joni
2008-09-01 13:21:29

Doug, did you take a perfect pill or something? Cuz this is just PERFECT. I was just thinking about adding Twitter to my personal blog and my web design blog. And BAM, here they are!

Once again, just like your Contact Form plugin, an outstanding and very useful tool.

Comment by Douglas Karr
2008-09-01 13:58:13

Thanks Joni! You’re too kind.
 
 
2008-09-01 13:32:21

[...] Karr, of the Marketing Tech Blog just released some freshly designed Twitter icons free for the download that you can use on your blog. I’ve been looking for something besides [...]
 
Comment by Layne
2008-09-29 20:41:59

Wow, perfect! I just Googled to find a nice twitter icon after giving up looking for something on twitter. Nice work, and I will use this in several places as I have several sites.

Thank you so much!

 
2008-11-03 02:42:53

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2008-11-05 07:28:55

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2008-12-21 00:18:51

Hi Doug:
Thank you for this very generous offer. I’ve implemented the image map on my blog and it works like a charm.
Thanks!
Mario.
 
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