Six Foot Coder: Creating Official Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Share Buttons

With a little bit of Javascript, HTML, and Meta Tags it is quite easy to create the official buttons for Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

Create an official Facebook Share this button:

Generate a share button
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/share-button/

More information about open graph tags:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/howtos/maximizing-distribution-media-content

Add this to your HTML Tag:
<html xmlns:fb="http://ogp.me/ns/fb#">

Add these meta tags in between the <head> </head>:

    <meta property="og:title" content="My Page Title" />
    <meta property="og:url" content="http://www.myurl.com/" />
    <meta property="og:image" content="http://www.myurl.com/images/someimage.png" />
    <meta property="og:description" content="This is a description" />


Add this Javascript after the body:

<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>
    (function(d, s, id) {
        var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
        if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
        js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
        js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1";
        fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));
</script>


Here is the actual button:
<fb:share-button href="http://www.myurl.com" type="button_count"></fb:share-button>