Last week, Twitter launched Blackbird Pie where you can post the link to a specific tweet and it will automatically generate code to embed that tweet into your blog post. Previously, most folks were mostly using screenshots to show a tweet or a series of tweets. While the code generate does seem rather long just for one tweet, it does become a pretty handy tool as it includes that Twitter account’s avatar and part of their background.

To get the code you need to grab the link for that particular tweet which can be found by clicking on the time stamp listed below in small font underneath a tweet. Usually it says something like “about 2 hours ago.” If you click on that it will take you to a page for that specific tweet ... Click here to read the rest of this post at the Social Media Virtual Assistant at Large blog.

The Social Media Virtual Assistant at Large Blog is authored by VAF member Kimberly of JK Virtual Office Solutions.


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Interesting! I'm going to have to check this out further.
Thanks for sharing the info, this is news to me!

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It's still a pretty new tool and I think they need to make some adjustments to make it better, but it's a start and I can see the benefits of embedding a tweet rather than just doing a screenshot.

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Kimberly
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