If you spend any time on Twitter, you know that the micro-blogging giant has had a busy few months launching a redesign, an open-source Android security tech, and Tweetdeck as a . Now Twitter is offering a new way to make your website or blog more interactive with easy-to-embed tweets.
This new feature will allow your website visitors to interact with embedded tweets, as well as view certain details, such as replies and retweets. This new feature can improve your small business website or blog, with just a minimal amount of coding.
One exciting feature of this new service is that any tweets with a photo will embed that photo within any text in the tweet, as long as the picture was uploaded to pic.twitter.com. Photos uploaded using any other service won’t work.
The New Twitter
Twitter has changed dramatically. Icons for “home,” “connect,” and “discover” are now at the top left of your profile, if you have the new design. If your account isn’t yet active on the new Twitter design, be aware that you won’t be able to get the code to embed tweets.
If your Twitter profile doesn’t have any of the new features listed above, be patient, as the new version of Twitter.com is still in progress. If you have downloaded the new version for your Android or iPhone, you will get earlier access to the new Twitter when logging in on your PC.
Embedding Code and Finding the Permalink
If you’re already using the new Twitter design, then you’re ready to roll.
To get the code, go to your tweet’s permalink page. The permalink is hidden within the timestamp on the tweet. Click the timestamp and you’re there. On your Tweet’s permalink page you have to click on “Embed This Tweet,” copy and paste the code into your website or blog, and you’re done.
Embedded Tweets Make Your Content Permanent
Now, more than ever, you have to think before you tweet. While people once could take a screenshot of an incriminating tweet and post it to a website, they now have the option of embedding tweets as well. Deleting a tweet does not make the tweet go away if it has been embedded in a website or blog.
On the positive side, permanent content is essential to search engine optimization (SEO).
