Including a post title in a twitter link

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Im trying to make a Twitter button on each article of my blog. This is the code I use on single.php 

<a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=<?php echo urlencode(get_the_title()); ?>">
Tweet this!
</a>

The problem is that I have a blog post with this title:

Read More

Give format to “bodytext”

and when I tweet it, the quotes appear as

Give format to “bodytext”

What should I do?

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  1. The problem is that get_the_title() will pass the title through a filter that texturizes the quotes. So a regular ” becomes a curly quote (“) and urlencode() will break it.

    So instead, write your own title function and use that:

    function my_get_the_title() {
    global $post;

    return $post->post_title;
}

    This should bypass any unwanted filters and let you work with regular quotes.