Is there a callback for Twitter's Tweet Button?

Question

Is there a way to register a callback on Twitter's Tweet button? I'd like to be able to track which particular users on my site have tweeted a link. I can't add on onClick event because it's a cross-domain iFrame. Any other ideas?

I've seen one way to do it but it seems unreliable. Their documentation doesn't mention anything so I am looking for help with a work-around.

Answer 1

Twitter has Web Intent events for loaded, rendered, resize, tweet, follow, retweet, like, and click.

twttr.events.bind(   'tweet',   function (event) {     // Do something there   } ); 

The behavior was changed in the fall of 2015 due to the unreliableness of callbacks happening after an event is complete.

They will now be triggered when a user invokes the action in your page, rather than after the action is completed.

Example loading widgets.js:

<script> // Performant asynchronous method of loading widgets.js window.twttr = (function(d, s, id) {   var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],     t = window.twttr || {};   if (d.getElementById(id)) return t;   js = d.createElement(s);   js.id = id;   js.src = "https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";   fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);    t._e = [];   t.ready = function(f) {     t._e.push(f);   };    return t; }(document, "script", "twitter-wjs")); </script>  <script> // Wait until twttr to be ready before adding event listeners twttr.ready(function (twttr) {   twttr.events.bind('tweet', function(event) {     console.log(event);   }); }); </script> 

Answer 2

I have just implemented a tweet callback event.

More information on Twitter's callback event
- Twitter Web Intents
- Web Intents Javascript Events

The Javascript callback

$.getScript("http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js", function(){    function handleTweetEvent(event){      if (event) {        alert("This is a callback from a tweet")      }    }    twttr.events.bind('tweet', handleTweetEvent);          }); 

The tweet button:

 <a href="http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http://test.com;via=stack">twitter</a>