Someone asked me how I was able to quote Pope Benedict XVI's first tweet and embed it on the site and yet still displays as if it were on the very twitter page, unlike taking a screenshot, cropping and uploading as an image and add a link to it, making it clickable.
Well, there is no much secret in accomplishing that which I did. xdamman had already created a service via blackbird wich has become a part of twitter that can do just that.
Here are the simple 9 steps:
Done!
Well, there is no much secret in accomplishing that which I did. xdamman had already created a service via blackbird wich has become a part of twitter that can do just that.
Here are the simple 9 steps:
- Copy the full URL of a tweet (see PS below to learn how to copy tweets url)
- Go to media.twitter.com/blackbird-pie
- Click on the input text field
- Paste the copied URL (in step 1)
- Click on the “Bake it” button
- Click on the text area where the HTML code is created
- Select all text (press ctrl+a or cmd+a on a Mac)
- Copy (ctrl+c or cmd+c on a Mac)
- Paste the copied HTML in your HTML section of blog/site and voila!
Done!
PS: How to find a Tweet's URL:
- Go to the twitter page you want to quote a tweet from and locate the Tweet
- Click on the Tweet's timestamp. Below each Tweet, you'll see information about when the Tweet was posted. This is the "timestamp" see the spherical red mark in the image beow.
- A page showing only that Tweet will open. This link does not expire.
- Copy the URL that show up in your browser's address bar
- Paste the URL as directed in the steps above or send it to whomever you want to share the tweet.
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