HOW TO: Embed Tweets using Blackbird Pie (Really)
We all remember the big buzz on embedding tweets into web pages about a month ago, but to be honest I kindof forgot about it after that… mainly because I half expected information on how to embed the tweets to come up somewhere on the twitter homepage, but it didn’t.
What I realized after doing some additional research on Twitter Media is that this isn’t an official Twitter feature (yet) afterall. As it turns out, the Twitter embed function, deemed Blackbird Pie, is mainly the result of @robinsloan brainpower. [via Twitter Media].
Here’s an example (me trying to be funny…)
How to actually do this.
If you’re a WordPress user, download the plugin and use the following shorthand html code: ” There was a problem with the blakbirdpie shortcode ”
If you’re everyone else, use the official Twitter Media BlackBird Pie code generator here. Simply copy and paste your status update URL into the box, press the button. and VOILA, you have some code.