Twitter’s new tool for embedding tweets in web pages

LINK: dev.twitter.com ➚ | Posted by: Joshua Benton | December 8, 2011

With Twitter’s redesign today comes less need for Blackbird Pie, hasty screenshots, or other ad hoc means for slapping a tweet in a story. Every individual tweet page comes with an “Embed this Tweet” link. Here’s an example:

RT @twittermedia: We’ve been hard at work, creating a new kind of Twitter! Come explore, come discover at fly.twitter.com

— Nieman Lab (@NiemanLab) December8, 2011

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