Twitter Lets You Bake Your Tweets
Category: Patricia Snodgrass, Social Media, Trends
Twitter has released a new feature that allows for you to "bake" a Twitter status (in other words, embed) into any page, blog post, etc. as you would a video clip via YouTube. Why is this significant? Is it really significant at all?
If anything, it's a shortcut from how users had been displaying single tweets via screenshots or copied and pasted quotes. Also, embedded tweets will look consistent across the board and will be instantly recognized as coming from Twitter. Finally, embedded tweets will be fully linkable, including hashtags, usernames, URLs, and most importantly, the original author. Hopefully, these tweets will lead to more followers for the author as well as more viewership on Twitter.
Clearly, Twitter is trying to create their own solutions and encourage users to stay on Twitter instead of relying on third party solutions.
Want to start baking your tweets? Let's say your friend tweeted something that made you laugh till you cried, and you're dying to share with the rest of the world. Here's my example of a very profound tweet I baked recently:
Here's what you do:
STEP ONE: On twitter.com, find the status of your choice. Click the time stamp, then snag the URL in the address bar.
STEP TWO: Go to Twitter Media Blackbird Pie, hit "Bake It," and the result will be HTML code to copy and paste into your page.
NOTE: I have discovered one bug that Twitter will hopefully fix. If I snag a full URL while logged in, the URL will be a secure "https://" whereas the validation in the form requires "http://" and will therefore spit out an error. Problem was solved by removing the S, but it was annoying.
Want to learn more? Follow the discussion on Mashable.
Posted By: Patricia Snodgrass | Date Published: 5.4.2010 | Comments (3)