Not too long ago Twitter released a new function, the ability to embed a tweet within your blog posts….here is what that looks like live…
Apparently #wordpress powers 16.6% of the web, that’s serious stuff! Source:ow.ly/1NDbOv
— Nick Ellison (@NKEllison) June 12, 2012
The great news is that if you’re a WordPress user, and lets face it what blogger isn’t? It just got even easier! Just upgrade to version 3.4 from your dashboard and you can simply paste a link to that tweet in your post.
‘How to embed a live tweet into a WordPress blog post’ – TWEET THIS
Why would you want to embed a tweet in a blog post?
Lets say someone tweets about that blog post or something relative to that post, you can add that tweet to give a little bit of social proof and add a little extra pizzaz to the post, but best of all, the links are live! The reader can follow you on twitter, reply to that tweet, re-tweet it, save it as a favourite and click on any of the links or hashtags that you originally included in that tweet! This all helps when trying to get yourself noticed. Try it, click re-tweet above! :0)
Considering that the average tweet lasts only a few seconds then simply drains of into the noise of the twittesphere never to be seen again.. this way, you can keep your tweets alive! Plus any cool responses you got to that post you could include into it.
Tip: Let the person who originally tweeted/re-tweeted you know about it and watch them re-tweet it again! Everyone loves to be featured in a blog post, what would you do if someone featured you in their blog? Shout it from the rooftops that’s what! This is just one more way to get exposure to your blog post, especially older blog post.
So enough of the why…. here’s the how…
Head over to your twitter account and click on your own name to bring up your profile and all your tweets. Then just follow these steps..
Hit preview if you are using wordpress and check out your awesome embedded tweet! How cool is that? It should look just like this below. Note that I used the HTML tab because I wanted to centre it, I have noticed if you use the link you can only left align, but let me know if you get over that hurdle below!
Apparently #wordpress powers 16.6% of the web, that’s serious stuff! Source:ow.ly/1NDbOv
— Nick Ellison (@NKEllison) June 12, 2012
That is a nice move from Twitter which enables the embedded tweets for any websites. BTW, thanks for the info.