He was maybe thinking of a response to a similar question on another thread.
The way the tweet and follow buttons are done has changed. If you want to create a button after widgets.js has been loaded (any sort of dynamic use), then you're supposed to do this by adding an iframe with appropriate url and parameters and it will return code that creates the button <iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src=" http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.html?screen_name=twitterapi&show_count=<http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.html?screen_name=twitterapi&show_count=false> true" style="width:300px; height:20px;"></iframe> See http://dev.twitter.com/pages/follow_button#using-an-iframe http://dev.twitter.com/pages/follow_button#how-can-i-render-the-follow-button-in-ajax-loaded-content http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button -- T -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk