Question: I'm trying to put a Twitter share link in an email. Because this is in an email I can't rely on JavaScript, and have to use the "Build Your Own" Tweet button.

For example, sharing a link to Google:

```
<a href="http://www.twitter.com/share?url=http://www.google.com/>Tweet</a>

```

This works fine. The problem I'm having is when the URL has a query string.

```
<a href="http://www.twitter.com/share?url=http://mysite.org/foo.htm?bar=123&baz=456">Tweet</a>

```

URLs with query strings confuse Twitter's URL shortening service, t.co. I've tried URL encoding this in various ways and cannot get anything to work. The closest I have gotten is by doing this.

```
<a href="http://www.twitter.com/share?url=http://mysite.org/foo.htm%3Fbar%3D123%26baz%3D456">Tweet</a>

```

Here I've encoded only the query string. When I do this, t.co successfully shortens the URL, but upon following the shortened link, it takes you to the encoded URL. I see `http://mysite.org/foo.htm%3Fbar%3D123%26baz%3D456` in the address bar, and get the following error in the browser

> 
> Not Found
> 
> 
> The requested URL /foo.htm?bar=123&baz=456 was not found on this server.
> 
> 
> 

I'm at a loss as to how to solve this problem.

**Edit:** Re: onteria\_

I've tried encoding the entire URL. When I do that no URL shows up in the Tweet.

Answer: 
Doesn't get simpler than this: 

```
<a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=optional%20promo%20text%20http://example.com/foo.htm?bar=123&baz=456" target="_blank">Tweet</a>

```
Use the Twitter Intent resource <https://dev.twitter.com/web/tweet-button/web-intent>