diff --git a/addons/website_blog/static/src/js/contentshare.js b/addons/website_blog/static/src/js/contentshare.js
index 47cd88fc4a7..cfc02470f7f 100644
--- a/addons/website_blog/static/src/js/contentshare.js
+++ b/addons/website_blog/static/src/js/contentshare.js
@@ -22,9 +22,12 @@
                     popover_content += '<a class="o_share_comment mr12"><i class="fa fa-comment fa-lg mr4 ml4"/></a>';
                 }
                 if($('.blog_title, .blog_content').hasClass('js_tweet')){
-                    var current_url = window.location.href;
-                    var tweet_selected_text = this.getSelection('string').substring(0,option.maxLength-(current_url.length+option.author_name.length+7));
-                    var text = encodeURIComponent(_.str.sprintf('\"%s\" --@%s %s', tweet_selected_text, option.author_name, current_url));
+                    var tweet = '"%s" - %s';
+                    var baseLength = tweet.replace(/%s/g, '').length;
+                    // Shorten the selected text to match the tweet max length
+                    // Note: all (non-localhost) urls in a tweet have 23 characters https://support.twitter.com/articles/78124
+                    var selectedText = this.getSelection('string').substring(0, option.maxLength - baseLength - 23);
+                    var text = encodeURIComponent(_.str.sprintf(tweet, selectedText, window.location.href));
                     popover_content += '<a onclick="window.open(\''+option.shareLink+text+'\',\'_'+option.target+'\',\'location=yes,height=570,width=520,scrollbars=yes,status=yes\')"><i class="ml4 mr4 fa fa-twitter fa-lg"/></a>';
                 }
                 return popover_content;
diff --git a/addons/website_blog/static/src/js/website_blog.js b/addons/website_blog/static/src/js/website_blog.js
index 5c2d82f7646..7985e0ebecc 100644
--- a/addons/website_blog/static/src/js/website_blog.js
+++ b/addons/website_blog/static/src/js/website_blog.js
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ function shareArticle(event){
 
 $(document).ready(function() {
     if ($('.website_blog').length) {
-        $(".js_tweet, .js_comment").share({'author_name': $('#blog_author').text()});
+        $(".js_tweet, .js_comment").share({});
         $('.cover_footer').on('click', page_transist);
         $('a[href^="#blog_content"]').on('click', animate);
         $('.o_twitter, .o_facebook, .o_linkedin, .o_google, .o_twitter_complete, .o_facebook_complete, .o_linkedin_complete, .o_google_complete').on('click', shareArticle);