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Created November 27, 2012 20:44
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proper twitter callback
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
var url = "https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?" + $.param({
url: "http://www.google.com",
text: "text"
});
$(window).bind("message", function(event) {
event = event.originalEvent
if(event.source == share_window && event.data != "__ready__") {
console.log($.parseJSON(event.data));
}
});
var share_window = window.open(url);
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
@tejinderss
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define share_window at the start of script, otherwise I get an error that share_window is undefined.

@mattymess
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Thanks so much for this. You saved me a ton of headache!

@willmorgan
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Thanks for your time in deciphering this.

@glytch
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glytch commented Dec 3, 2014

I looked all over the internet for this. thanks.

I'm going to include some stuff that would have helped me find this page via search. twttr event bind intent callback

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