The new Twitter is more than just a new look and layout. Embedding tweets is now much easier. Borrowing a page from the YouTube playbook, Twitter is offering code so you can share an interactive tweeting experience with visitors to your website. Using it increases the visibility and lifespan of special tweets.
The process is simple. Please note that it only works if you have enabled the new Twitter.
Go directly to your Twitter page or the user's profile for the tweet you want to embed. Do not use a third party access.
Choose the tweet you want to share.
Position your mouse pointer on the tweet. Some selection criteria will appear on the tweet.
Click open.
Click Details. It opens the tweet with the option to embed this tweet:
Click Embed this tweet. A pop-up appears with the code already highlighted.
If you don't want to alter the code, use Ctrl-C (press ctrl and the letter "c" simultaneously) to copy it. Or, you can position your mouse pointer on the highlighted code, right click and select copy. Go to the place you want to embed the tweet and use Ctrl-V (yep, it's just like Ctrl-C using the letter "v") or right-click paste and "Voila!", you've embedded a tweet!
If you want to control the position of the tweet (left, right, or center), simple click the appropriate alignment button and the code automatically changes. How cool is that? You can create HTML code without having to actually know how it works! The highlighting goes away but you can fix that easily by clicking on the code.
Here is the embedded tweet:
How to Enable the New Twitter Design goo.gl/fb/bg6ZG-Multichannel Magic
- Debra Ellis (@DebraWEllis) December9, 2011
Your readers can reply, retweet, and favorite the tweet from within your website. There is also the option to follow the person who created the tweet.
Happy Tweeting!
PS: If you don't have the new version of Twitter, read "How to Enable the New Twitter" post.