Twitter is set to introduce a new feature on Tuesday that will make it easier to embed a tweet within a Web document. The company teased the upcoming feature in a cryptic post on its media blog, which also provides some hints as to what the new functionality may look like.
Anyone who runs a Website—whether it be a blog with a few readers or a major publication that caters to millions—knows that reproducing the wisdom of a tweet on an HTML page can be a tricky affair.
In fact, the only two choices available right now are to simply quote the tweet's text or to take a screenshot of the tweet from Twitter's site and paste it into your HTML page. The first solution fails to capture some essential details, like the user's avatar and their name, while the other is time consuming and prevents search engines from indexing the contents of the tweet.
More: http://www.macworld.com/article/151007/
Anyone who runs a Website—whether it be a blog with a few readers or a major publication that caters to millions—knows that reproducing the wisdom of a tweet on an HTML page can be a tricky affair.
In fact, the only two choices available right now are to simply quote the tweet's text or to take a screenshot of the tweet from Twitter's site and paste it into your HTML page. The first solution fails to capture some essential details, like the user's avatar and their name, while the other is time consuming and prevents search engines from indexing the contents of the tweet.
More: http://www.macworld.com/article/151007/