facebookstatus
I want to set up a button on my website where I can define a status update for the user who clicks the button?
e.g.: The user clicks the button/link and a popup shows up with my suggested status update. The user just has to agree to post the update, but can also change or edit the text presented to them.
I've seen this for Twitter posts and I'm guessing this is possible for Facebook too.
You are currently permitted to post up to 63,206 characters on Facebook in a status group or wall post. There is no difference.
In September, we increased the character limit on status updates to 5,000 characters. Today, we're announcing that you can now write posts with more than 60,000 characters. (1)
Vadim Lavrusik
Journalism Program Manager at Facebook
I set the exact limit to something nerdy. Facebook … Face Boo K … hex(FACE) - K … 64206 - 1000 = 63206 (2)
Bob Baldwin
Engineer at Facebook
(2) http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-increases-status-update-character-limit-to-63206/5754
You can use this If This Then That recipe: http://ifttt.com/recipes/1813. If that's not quite what you want, there's many more to choose from.
Best Answer
I am guessing you are referring to Twitter buttons.
Previously you were able to accomplish this using the Facebook Share button but this is deprecated.
Facebook now favors the Like button for a better click rate.
As you can see in the image I have already liked the item, Facebook now gives the option to the user to add a comment.
You may have to get dirty with the Facebook graph and use FB.ui instead.