Add Official Twitter Followers Button to Your Blog

Get more twitter followers by adding a official followers button on your blog. Installing such widget in your blog let's your readers to know the Fan followings of your blog, on the basis of which he/she decides a position for your blog in his mind. Normally a blog with large number of followers is considered to be the best blog by your reader itself and this force him in a way to visit your blog again and again.

We will be seeing how to install official twitter followers button in your blog.

■ Open Blog Dashboard → Layout
■ Open Add Gadget

■ Open Html/Javascript Editor

■ Paste below given code.

Jquery

<!-- Twitter follow button start -->
<a href="http://twitter.com/USERNAME" class="twitter-follow-button">Follow @USERNAME</a>
<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script>
<!-- Twitter follow button end -->

■ Replace the USERNAME with your twitter handle (username).
■ Below is the configuration settings for this widget. You can configure the look of the button by adding link-data attributes. Add it just next to class="twitter-follow-button"

Description	Appearance	Data-attribute
Default
Don’t show followers count		data-show='false'
Don’t show Twitter handle		data-show-screen-name='false'
Large button (shown here without count)		data-size='large'

■ Hit the save button and you're done.

Enjoy :)