You can now embed Tweets directly into DU posts

[EarlG]

This discussion thread was locked by Skinner (a host of the Announcements group).

People have been asking for this for a while now, and since Twitter is President Cheetoface McShitgibbon's preferred method of communication we decided it was finally time to program our software to allow automatic embedding of Tweets.

How?

Simply enter the URL of the tweet into the body of your post, and our software will do the rest.

Where's the Tweet URL?

To find the URL, go to the tweet you want to embed and click the small drop-down arrow in the top-right. One of the options will say "Copy link to Tweet" -- grab that link and paste it into your post, and you should get the following result:

Link to tweet

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Yay. I've been looking forward to this. Thanks. NT

[metroins]

2. This is cool. Good work! Nt

[radical noodle]

3. Great! Thank you!

[yallerdawg]

4. Very cool !

Thank you!

[snacker]

5. Good to know...

thank you.

[LiberalFighter]

6. Thank you great wizards.

[Cattledog]

7. Yes!

[LonePirate]

8. Much appreciated! Thank you.

[seaglass]

9. Excellent! Thank you! I need to practice...lol

Link to tweet

[They_Live]

13. Awesome.

"pouty face and scowl"

heh.

[blogslut]

10. Huzzah!

Oh Joy! Oh Rapture! Thank you EarlG!

[GeorgeGist]

11. Hey, it works ...

Link to tweet

[Sissyk]

12. Excellent!

Thanks, Guys!

[OxQQme]

14. #SeanSpicerAFilm

Link to tweet

[OxQQme]

15. The KKK is a peaceful community outreach organization

Link to tweet

[Cha]

16. Wow.. Thanks EarlG.. Testing.. Hey Hey!

Link to tweet

Thank you!!

[highplainsdem]

17. Thanks! It would help, though, to have the tweet open in another window, the way other links

here open.

[Denzil_DC]

20. Do you want it to open in another window, or another tab in your browser?

I didn't realize at first, but the way it now works is fine for me, though not immediately obvious.

If you click on the displayed tweet, it should open up the actual tweet on Twitter in another tab (at least it does in Firefox).

Try it:

Link to tweet

[highplainsdem]

21. I meant tab (sorry). And it doesn't open in another tab for me, just changes the current tab, so I

have to go back one page to get back to DU. Works the same with the link you posted as it did before.

All other links on DU open a new tab. And links to tweets used to.

BTW, I am using Firefox.

I do have one other quibble with the link. When I used to post links to tweets, you could tell from the link that appeared on DU that it was a particular page on Twitter -- so, for instance, I could post a link to the Twitter account, and a following link to a specific tweet. Now, with only the words "Link to tweet" appearing, you can't tell the links apart.

[Denzil_DC]

22. Yeah, I take the point about it no longer being as easy

to control how you link to Twitter.

But I don't get "Link to tweet" if I just paste the DU Twitter URL in:

https://twitter.com/demunderground

It just displays it like any other non-image URL.

As opposed to the specific tweet URL:

Link to tweet

As for getting the tweet to open in another tab, how about middle-clicking on the link (around the inside margins of it seems to be the hot spot, or aim for the date stamp) rather than left-clicking? That opens it in a new tab for me.

Or right-clicking on the tweet's date stamp will bring up menu options, the first of which is "Open Link in New Tab".

[boston bean]

18. Nice. Thank you!

[Denzil_DC]

19. That's very cool. Thanks. Note to any Ghostery users:

You'll need to either whitelist ("Trust Site&quot DU or allow the Twitter Button Social Media Tracker in order for this to work.

[herding cats]

23. Thank you!

This is a much needed upgrade!

[OKNancy]

24. test

Link to tweet

[Lucinda]

25. Thank you for doing this! It makes action items sooo much easier

to share!

[riversedge]

26. testing.........

Link to tweet

[riversedge]

27. Hey IT WORKED. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[Linc13]

28. Well...

alright.

[TDale313]

29. Cool. Gonna Practice...

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

(Sharing cause you just know the Orange One has to *hate* this pic.)

[BlueCaliDem]

30. YAY!!!! eom

[eppur_se_muova]

31. Is there a way to disable this feature using individual account preferences ?

Slow-loading tweets are causing the view to bounce all over the place. I wish people wouldn't embed so many tweets in one post that it takes that long to load.

[Denzil_DC]

32. Maybe they'll do that.

If not, install a browser plugin like Ghostery - it'll stop the tweets displaying (unless you tell it to allow them) and just show a link instead.

[eppur_se_muova]

33. Thanks. nt

[uppityperson]

34. I don't see a drop down arrow, can't do more than copy the address. Help?

The address like this, can't see an arrow on my tablet

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/839108868584124417

[herding cats]

35. Are you on a tablet or other mobile device?

If so, mobile twitter, which twitter defaults to even in a mobile device's browser when one chooses not to use the app, doesn't appear to offer a work around for this issue that I'm aware of yet.

I'm about to try other browsers, and I'll let you know if I find one which one can emulate a none mobile environment. Until then, were reduced to moving to a non mobile device to embed tweets due to a flaw in the Twitter platform.

[uppityperson]

36. Thank you, that is it indeed

[JudyM]

37. Thanks, I was just trying to do this on a tablet too, found your post. Bummer.

[Make7]

38. You just need to delete the 'mobile.' At the beginning of the address.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/839108868584124417

In case you still were wondering how to get tweets to embed from your mobile device - although I don't know how easy or difficult editing text is on your device (usually it's pretty easy - I am posting this from my iPad).

I'm a little late to the party, but thought some mobile users might still happen upon this.

[uppityperson]

40. Thank you, that fixed it for me

[herding cats]

42. They've updated mobile twitter since my previous post.

Now you should just be able to click the menu, select "copy link to tweet", paste it here on DU and it will work. At least it does for me now.

[Kablooie]

39. Note: This doesn't work on iOS Safari.

But works fine on iOS Chrome.

[Pluvious]

41. Testing possible work around

Link to tweet

I'm using iPad Safari - you need to remove the "mobile." portion from the hostname, otherwise you get this:

https://mobile.twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/860460384360292352

[womanofthehills]

44. On an imac - just right click on the tweet and "copy link to tweet" comes up

[Blue_Tires]

45. lifesaver!

[VOX]

47. Terrific! So glad we can now do this!

There have been numerous "keepers" posted on Twitter that are insightful, witty and caustically anti-#45. Have been wanting to share more of those.

As always, thanks for your sterling effort, EarlG!