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The Message button is a small button to help your customers easily send a Direct Message to you on X. Allow your customers to contact you to ask questions and get support from right on your website. A Message button consists of two parts: a link to the direct message composer on X.com, and the X for Websites JavaScript to enhance the link with the recognizable Message button.

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Message creation flow

Clicking the button will link the user to the Direct Message composer, pre-populated with the values you define in the button markup.

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How to add a message button to your website

publish.x.com is a simple configuration tool for to create a message button. Just enter your @screenName to get started.

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Manually

  1. Create an anchor element with a twitter-dm-button class name. Set a href attribute value of https://x.com/messages/compose to create a link to the X direct message view. The recipient_id query parameter is the ID of the @username that should receive the messages.
<a href="https://x.com/messages/compose?recipient_id=3805104374"
  class="twitter-dm-button" data-screen-name="@furni">
Message @furni</a>
  1. Optionally pre-populate message text by customizing the text query parameter.
<a href="https://x.com/messages/compose?recipient_id=3805104374&text=Hello%20world"
  class="twitter-dm-button" data-screen-name="@furni">
Message @furni</a>
  1. Asynchronously load the X for Websites JavaScript using our loading snippet. The script will initialize the message button after your page content loads.

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Query parameters

ParameterDescription
recipient_idRequired. The user ID of the X user that will receive the messages.
textOptional. The pre-populated text in the message. Text must be URL encoded.

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Button customization

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Size

Add a data-size attribute value of large to display a larger message button.