Bring Tweets To Your Content
Have you ever wanted to quote or share a tweet but had to painstakingly take screenshots of said tweet, upload them, and then embed the images in your post? Today we are launching a new feature dubbed Twitter Blackbird Pie. The new feature makes displaying tweets in all their glory as simple as pasting a link in your post as shown below.
Bring Tweets To Your Content: http://wp.me/pf2B5-1r4—
WordPress.com (@wordpressdotcom) November 05, 2010
What is Blackbird Pie?
Twitter Blackbird Pie is a method of displaying tweets as rich full content rather than as just simple URLs or images. With Blackbird Pie Twitter, hashtags link to search pages and usernames link to twitter profiles. An individual tweet, or pie, includes all the details, design, and information that a single tweet page would include.
As a blogger, Blackbird Pie offers a great way to engage Twitter on your site and bring discussion to your blog.
Get Going
To embed a tweet in your blog, all you need to do is visit the tweet on Twitter.com that you would like to use, copy the URL from the address bar, and paste it into your post on a line by itself. WordPress.com will do the rest and your link will be converted to a full tweet once we pull the relevant data (there may be a short delay).
Twitter Blackbird Pie will work for posts and comments throughout WordPress.com. For self-hosted WordPress blogs we recommend the Twitter Blackbird Pie plugin which we modified to work on WordPress.com.
November 9th, 2010 at 1:04 am
Cool! Can’t wait to use it!
November 9th, 2010 at 6:00 am
Cool duo!
November 9th, 2010 at 9:37 am
its really amazing! I’ve been waiting for it. Nice feature
November 9th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
I have the Tweet on a line by itself and it’s not working…
November 10th, 2010 at 4:53 am
Is the tweet private? If we couldn’t reach the tweet in question we do not convert the link into the full display.
November 9th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
amazing & very cool!!!
November 9th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
This is really cool and useful. Thanks for sharing ways to use Twitter!
November 9th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Excellent, a really useful tool
November 9th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Cool.
November 9th, 2010 at 7:50 pm
Hi,
sounds really cool, but…
…unfortunately it’s not working for me. I’ve followed the instructions, put the Tweet-URL on a single line, but the Tweet won’t show up.
Here is the URL to my blog-post: http://proehlth.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/twitter-blackbird-pie/
Any ideas?
Tom
November 10th, 2010 at 4:48 am
Go into HTML mode and make sure that no HTML is on the same line including paragraph (<p>) tags.
November 9th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
great job!
November 10th, 2010 at 4:45 am
Suppose a tweet has a link to a twitpic or yfrog photo. [Example: http://twitter.com/#!/wagle/status/29477844059 ] Can that photo be displayed inside the WP post itself so that the viewer doesn’t have to click on the tweetpic or yfrog link (like it does on Twitter)?
November 10th, 2010 at 4:55 am
At this time the Blackbird Pie script does not support this and will just show the simplified display of a tweet links, hashtags and usersnames). Thanks for the feedback!
November 10th, 2010 at 5:09 am
Also, can it be made automated? Like I tweet and it automatically appears as a post on my WP? I know tweet links appear automatically via Twitter widget but I am talking about showing them directly on content panel as, to use your words, “rich full content rather than as just simple URLs or images”.
November 10th, 2010 at 10:50 am
We don’t have anything to import Tweets automatically yet.
November 10th, 2010 at 7:27 am
This is a good thing!!!!!!
November 10th, 2010 at 10:52 am
It’s not private… Just tried again and it’s now working. Looks fantastic… thank you WordPress!
November 10th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
Interesting feature and great idea. This is something which i wished to have it in the past. From twitter to wp.
I have a question if it would work when i used wordpress for blackberry. I planned to make use of BB for blogging activity.
What about if i typed [blackbirdpie id="13794126295"] or [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/themergency/status/13968912427"]?
November 10th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
We aren’t using any type of shortcode for it. Just put the Tweet URL on it’s own line and it should work.
November 10th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
AMAZING! Going to set this up very soon!!
November 10th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
Twitter is painfully dull and I fail to see how tweeting can improve my blogging.
November 11th, 2010 at 3:23 am
I can’t wait to get started with this new tweet method.
November 11th, 2010 at 5:56 am
This is pretty cool!
November 11th, 2010 at 6:26 am
Wow, I can’t believe how simple this is. I will use it right away, thanks for the info.
November 11th, 2010 at 10:06 am
Awesome idea!!
November 11th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
WEWW BRILLIANT IDEA!!!!!
November 11th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Love love love love love this. Will be using it a lot. Thank you!
November 11th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Thank you for a great thinking
November 11th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
I’m testing this right now.
I’ll bet I’ll love it!
November 12th, 2010 at 4:01 am
Great!!
November 12th, 2010 at 6:49 am
Great idea!! Thanks.
November 12th, 2010 at 7:58 am
Pretty cool. Thanks for the update.
November 12th, 2010 at 5:16 pm
Wow. That is cool. Just cool.
November 13th, 2010 at 1:08 am
That’s mega-awesome. I never even thought of such a thing. Thanks again.
November 13th, 2010 at 7:48 am
Will this work with the new Twitter?
November 13th, 2010 at 11:56 am
Yes, it will work with the new URLs that have #! in them.
November 13th, 2010 at 7:57 am
A long-awaited feature finally see the light of the day. Thank You very much WordPress! You’re the best
November 13th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Nice, I don’t know how many times I’ve taken screen shots before. This is much better!
November 13th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Thanks very much for this! I was using screensnaps. Then I had the Blackbird bookmarklet but it was sometimes unreliable. And when it worked, I had to manually remove the background display code. This new method makes it so simple!
I don’t know where you take suggestions, but I’d really like to see dotEpub incorporated next too! It would allow people with eBook devices to make long blog posts into ePub files they could take along and read.
November 13th, 2010 at 10:26 pm
This is great idea, thanks.
November 14th, 2010 at 12:43 am
Wow, cracking development!
November 14th, 2010 at 5:31 am
I’m still new at this, but it sounds like something that will work very good for my blog. Thank you
November 14th, 2010 at 10:27 am
Absolutely great idea. I like it.
November 14th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
this gr8 idea
November 14th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
all thanks , i like it
November 14th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
It is not working for me.
I made sure there are no links. It’s just the address on a line all by itself.
Like that.
I’ve waited for about 45 minutes to an hour for the tweet to show up, I also know that the tweet is not protected. So?
Please tell me what’s going on.
November 14th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Check under Settings and then Media.
“Enable auto-embeds” should be enabled. We will add this to the FAQ.
November 14th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Loved it.
November 14th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
I did what you said and it’s working now..
November 14th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
Fantastic! I’ll definitely be using this.
November 15th, 2010 at 2:22 am
And WordPress does it once more!
You guys continue to keep on making WP bigger and better!
Amazing!
November 15th, 2010 at 4:08 am
What about the inverse for .COM? Is there a way we can automatically tweet the title and categories/tags of selected new posts? Perhaps even converting the tags or categories into hashtags in the process?
November 15th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Have you tried Publicize?
November 15th, 2010 at 4:11 am
This is simply great. It’s just as if you guys read our minds! I thought about this sometime ago and here we are today! Thanks a lot. I will start using it very soon.
Any hope that you guys will also work towards the use our facebook URLs in a similar way as this Twitter Blackbird Pie?
November 15th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
Hey this is such a great Idea; I will definitely be using this.
November 16th, 2010 at 3:42 am
This is absolutely great!
November 16th, 2010 at 4:47 am
like it!
November 16th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
wow – INCREDIBLE guys, thanks. this is why I’m a die-hard WordPress fan. keep up the great work!
November 17th, 2010 at 3:25 am
I have been waiting for somthing like this.
November 17th, 2010 at 5:29 am
I like that you can put several tweets in one post.
November 17th, 2010 at 5:40 am
i can’t search for text in the embedded tweet on my site. is this the way it should be?
November 17th, 2010 at 7:10 pm
Right now we are only converting the URLs from the stored information when the page is viewed. This means that the tweet content is not getting indexed right now.
November 17th, 2010 at 10:50 am
I’m curious to know how others will use this feature. Generally, I use Twitter to attract attention to my blogs or LinkedIn articles. I don’t usually want to embed tweets in my blogs. So what’s everyone doing with this?
November 17th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
I tried it and i like it!
November 17th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
Cool! Useful! Fantabulous!!!!!!
November 18th, 2010 at 3:45 am
Great idea. i love it Thanks you.
November 18th, 2010 at 6:08 am
My only problem is that when you paste the tweet in it does not show the original date and time the tweet was posted. So it looks like the person who tweeted about a wine at our tasting commented live at 4am! I can vouch for the fact it was much earlier than that. How can I fix this?
November 19th, 2010 at 5:20 am
Can you link me to the post/tweet in question? We only change the time by displaying the time in the blog’s local timezone.
November 18th, 2010 at 9:54 am
You all are constantly coming up with great innovations, but this is one of the BEST. an absolutely brilliant idea for those of us who actively participate on Twitter, and use it to interact with bloggers, readers and the like.
November 18th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
Will definitely be using this sweet-tweet feature
November 18th, 2010 at 3:44 pm
Oh dear, maybe I’m being really dim here but I can’t get this to work – copied the tweet url as instructed, pasted into story … and, nada. Can anyone tell me what I’ve done wrong?
Ta!
http://planetproperty.wordpress.com/?p=497&preview=true
November 19th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
I looked on the HTML tab and you had the link on the same line as the end of another HTML tag. The tweet URL needs to be on a line by itself.
November 18th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
nice
November 18th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Sounds cool, but I deleted my twitter account. I guess I could just make another one.
November 18th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Good to know! Thanks
November 18th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
Nice will try it out.
November 19th, 2010 at 5:39 am
I would love to make the most out of this feature.
Keep it up, WordPress.
November 19th, 2010 at 6:57 am
I love this! Makes my life so much easier!