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Wonder if anyone can help. See attached code below:
If I launch a Web Intent via a normal "a href", and then tweet I get the callback. Lovely.
If, however, I launch a Web Intent via a window.open, say from a button click, I don't. See code below.
I could, trap the button click, and then call click on the "a href". At this point, I do then get the callback. However, this action in some browsers (e.g. Safari) gets caught in the pop-up blocker, so no-one sees the popup. Which is a bit useless.
I would like to use the window.open approach, and get the callback. Any thoughts anyone?
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head lang=en>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Web Intent t3 Experiment</title>
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"> </script>
</head>
<body>
<a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http://www.google.com&text=testing web intents">Option 1: Tweet via Link</a><br />
<button id="tf_sendtweet_button">Option 2: Tweet Via Button and JS</button>
<script type="text/javascript">
var t_element = d3.select("#tf_sendtweet_button");
t_element.on("click", function() {
_text = "Some compelling text to go in a tweet";
_url = "http://www.google.com/";
var tweet_url = 'https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=';
tweet_url += encodeURIComponent(_text);
tweet_url += '&url=' + encodeURIComponent(_url);
window.open(tweet_url,'_blank');
});
// Here, trap the callback from the WebIntent.
twttr.ready(function (twttr) {
// bind events here
twttr.events.bind('tweet', function (event) {
alert("Yay, tweet callback baby. Gotcha.");
console.log(new Date(), "Sweett, tweet callback: ", event);
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
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asked Feb 03 '26 20:02
Ok, everyone stand easy. It's been answered by a Twitter employee:
Unfortunately you can’t use the callback events features without letting our javascript control the window opening.
https://twittercommunity.com/t/get-web-intent-callback-from-a-window-open-call/20881
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answered Feb 05 '26 13:02
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