Embedding Tweets Done RIGHT, with EmbedTweet

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The Netherlands | Published on: May 5, 2010

Social media pitch

Third party developer show how it's done. Embedding tweets the EASY way with EmbedTweet.com http://pressdoc.com/p/0001tb

Summary

Today, Twitter unveiled their service called 'Blackbird Pie', which should make it easy for anyone to quote tweets in their weblog. Not so much. It stills requires going to another site to get the HTML. Fortunately a third party developer decided to create his own solution, which allows for automatic(!) including of tweets.

Details

EmbedTweet is a simple piece of JavaScript that you can include on your website, which will convert all links that link to a tweet-page into a nice visual representation of the actual tweet. It looks like what you would get if you took a screenshot, but it still provides all the interactive functionality such as retweeting, replying, visiting the author's profile, etc. It even updates the time the tweet was created.

You only include it once, then every time you link to a tweet it will automatically be converted to an embedded tweet.

Getting started

Installing EmbedTweet is super-easy. Just download the WordPress plugin you can find on the site. If you aren't using WordPress you can install the code manually as well.

Don't want to auto-embed all tweets?
No problem! Just turn off automatic embedding and apply a class to every link you do want to include.

Tumblr support
Unlike Blackbird Pie, EmbedTweet works for Tumblr as well!

Pricing

EmbedTweet is a free service. To cover server cost we might at one point in time ask for voluntary donations or we might offer a premium-plan for heavy-users.

Future

In the future EmbedTweet will add extra functionality such as detailed statistics, easier customization and integration with several Twitter-related services.

Writing about EmbedTweet?

Be sure to try out the service and include an example for your readers.

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