title: How do I create a link to Twitter login pop up/lightbox iframe for people to post tweets without using the standard tweet button?
body: <p>I'd like to create a link/lightbox to twitter for people to post about my site, but I don't want to use the standard tweet button supplied by twitter, as it adds 100k to my homepages loading time. </p>
  
  <p>Basically I'm trying to keep the loading time down to boost google traffic to my site.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way of linking to twitter in the same way as the tweet button but with minimal impact to my site and maybe keep the customer on my site by using a lightbox.</p>
  
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  <p>I could use a lightbox (<a href="http://lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2/" rel="nofollow">http://lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2/</a>) and link to the code generated by the tweet button</p>
  
  <p>eg: <a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fdev.twitter.com%2Fdocs%2Ftweet-button&amp;text=Tweet%20Button%20|%20Twitter%20Developers&amp;tw_p=tweetbutton&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fdev.twitter.com%2Fdocs%2Ftweet-button" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fdev.twitter.com%2Fdocs%2Ftweet-button&amp;text=Tweet%20Button%20|%20Twitter%20Developers&amp;tw_p=tweetbutton&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fdev.twitter.com%2Fdocs%2Ftweet-button</a></p>
  
  <p>but I'm not sure if this would create an error as there is in effect no tweet button being used</p>
  
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  <p>Thanks for your help</p>
  
  <p>Judi </p>