Overview

The Follow button is a small button displayed on your websites to help users easily follow a X account. A Follow button consists of two parts: a link to a follow web intent page on x.com and the X for Websites JavaScript to transform the link into our recognizable Follow button.

 

How to add a Follow button to your website

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The publish.twitter.com website includes a simple tool to generate the embed for a Follow button to copy-and-paste into your website template. Just enter a @screenName to get started.

Manually

1. Create an anchor element with a twitter-follow-button class name. Set the href attribute value pointing to a X profile URL.

      <a class="twitter-follow-button"
  href="https://twitter.com/TwitterDev">
Follow @TwitterDev</a>
    

2. Customize Follow button parameters using data-* attributes.

      <a class="twitter-follow-button"
  href="https://twitter.com/TwitterDev"
  data-size="large">
Follow @TwitterDev</a>
    

3. Asynchronously load the X for Websites JavaScript using our loading snippet. The script will initialize the Follow button after your page content loads.

Button customization

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Hide username

Hide the username from the displayed Follow button by setting a data-show-screen-name attribute value of false.

Default

Show screen name false

Large button style

Add a data-size attribute value of large to display a larger Follow button.