XF 1.5 How to replace Tweet with Follow button in sidebar_share_page

[JackieChun]

How do I replace the Tweet button with Follow in the sidebar?

I can't be the only one who thinks that Follow makes more sense than Tweet in the sidebar. There are few scenarios under which a visitor would start randomly tweeting about a forum, whereas following is a more natural action if someone likes the site.

 

[Paul B]

You would have to edit the template and add the follow code for your Twitter account.

See the guides here for how to determine and edit the template: How To...

 

[JackieChun]

Thanks Brogan.

 

[JackieChun]

I never managed to do this properly. This is the current code in that template:

<xen:if is="{$xenOptions.tweet.enabled}">
                    <div class="tweet shareControl">
                        <a href="https://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal"
                            data-lang="{xen:helper twitterLang, $visitorLanguage.language_code}"
                            data-url="{$url}"
                            {xen:if {$xenOptions.tweet.via}, 'data-via="{$xenOptions.tweet.via}"'}
                            {xen:if {$xenOptions.tweet.related}, 'data-related="{$xenOptions.tweet.related}"'}>{xen:phrase tweet}</a>
                    </div>
</xen:if>

And these are Twitter's instructions:

How to add a Follow button to your website
1. Create a new anchor element with a twitter-follow-button class to allow Twitter’s widgets JavaScript to discover the element and enhance the link into a Follow button. Set a href attribute value of a Twitter profile URL.

<a class="twitter-follow-button"
href="https://twitter.com/TwitterDev">
Follow @TwitterDev</a>

2. Customize Follow button parameters using data-* attributes.

<a class="twitter-follow-button"
href="https://twitter.com/TwitterDev"
data-size="large">
Follow @TwitterDev</a>

3. Asynchronously load Twitter’s widgets JavaScript using our loading snippet. The JavaScript snippet will check for an existing version of Twitter’s widgets JavaScript on the current page, initialize a function queue to be executed once the widgets JavaScript has loaded, and load the widgets JavaScript asynchronously from Twitter’s CDN.

Since XenForo already includes Twitter's javascript, I skipped that part, but the button does not render. Do I need to include Twitter's JavaScript again?