Bring Tweets To Your Content

November 5, 2010

Justin Shreve

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.

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.

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  1. Logan Nov 9th at 1:04 am

    Cool! Can’t wait to use it!

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  3. tfqhmd Nov 9th at 6:00 am

    Cool duo!

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  5. d34nmu Nov 9th at 9:37 am

    its really amazing! I’ve been waiting for it. Nice feature

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  7. samedifference1 Nov 9th at 2:17 pm

    I have the Tweet on a line by itself and it’s not working…

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  8. veronicaotta Nov 9th at 2:28 pm

    amazing & very cool!!! 😉

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  9. Stephane Manos Nov 9th at 2:43 pm

    This is really cool and useful. Thanks for sharing ways to use Twitter!

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  11. reflectionsofaprodigalson Nov 9th at 3:49 pm

    Excellent, a really useful tool

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  12. Saffina Desforges Nov 9th at 4:23 pm

    Cool.

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  13. Tom Proehl Nov 9th 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

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  14. munzirshafie Nov 9th at 10:29 pm

    great job!

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  16. Dinesh Wagle Nov 10th 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)?

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    • Justin Shreve Nov 10th 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!

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  17. Dinesh Wagle Nov 10th 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”.

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  18. eggfreckles Nov 10th at 7:27 am

    This is a good thing!!!!!!

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  19. samedifference1 Nov 10th at 10:52 am

    It’s not private… Just tried again and it’s now working. Looks fantastic… thank you WordPress!

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  20. RoePan Nov 10th 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″]?

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    • Nick Nov 10th 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.

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  21. jdecarmo Nov 10th at 3:18 pm

    AMAZING! Going to set this up very soon!!

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  22. Steven Harris Nov 10th at 9:14 pm

    Twitter is painfully dull and I fail to see how tweeting can improve my blogging.

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  23. wit4life Nov 11th at 3:23 am

    I can’t wait to get started with this new tweet method.

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  24. Michael Hauri Nov 11th at 5:56 am

    This is pretty cool!

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  25. usnoteinvestors Nov 11th at 6:26 am

    Wow, I can’t believe how simple this is. I will use it right away, thanks for the info.

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  26. kaysieho Nov 11th at 10:06 am

    Awesome idea!!

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  27. maulana491 Nov 11th at 3:17 pm

    WEWW BRILLIANT IDEA!!!!!

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  28. Andrea Simpson - Conflicted Mean Girl Nov 11th at 4:08 pm

    Love love love love love this. Will be using it a lot. Thank you!

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  29. braies Nov 11th at 4:23 pm

    Thank you for a great thinking

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  30. "Tiki" Carol Nov 11th at 10:36 pm

    I’m testing this right now.
    I’ll bet I’ll love it!

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  31. goldenaces Nov 12th at 4:01 am

    Great!!

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  32. girlgamesfree Nov 12th at 6:49 am

    Great idea!! Thanks.

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  33. amandarecord Nov 12th at 7:58 am

    Pretty cool. Thanks for the update.

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  34. mia1984 Nov 12th at 5:16 pm

    Wow. That is cool. Just cool.

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  35. lnxwalt Nov 13th at 1:08 am

    That’s mega-awesome. I never even thought of such a thing. Thanks again.

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  36. mardhiah Nov 13th at 7:48 am

    Will this work with the new Twitter?

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  37. Radoslav Shishkov Nov 13th at 7:57 am

    A long-awaited feature finally see the light of the day. Thank You very much WordPress! You’re the best 🙂

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  38. Blake Erickson Nov 13th at 4:08 pm

    Nice, I don’t know how many times I’ve taken screen shots before. This is much better!

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  39. mikecane Nov 13th 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.

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  41. mannt88 Nov 13th at 10:26 pm

    This is great idea, thanks.

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  42. miloatcroton Nov 14th at 12:43 am

    Wow, cracking development!

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  43. Through CJ's Eyes Nov 14th 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 🙂

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  44. madadgar2009 Nov 14th at 10:27 am

    Absolutely great idea. I like it.

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  45. jpana Nov 14th at 1:49 pm

    this gr8 idea

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  46. salqincity Nov 14th at 2:05 pm

    all thanks , i like it

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  47. therainhouse Nov 14th 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.

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  49. videshasewa.com Nov 14th at 5:48 pm

    Loved it.

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  50. therainhouse Nov 14th at 5:54 pm

    I did what you said and it’s working now..

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  51. Ana Félix Pires Nov 14th at 9:44 pm

    Fantastic! I’ll definitely be using this. 🙂

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  52. MJae Nov 15th at 2:22 am

    And WordPress does it once more!

    You guys continue to keep on making WP bigger and better!

    Amazing!

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  53. Cain Nov 15th 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?

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  54. metaglossia Nov 15th 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?

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  55. mikejar Nov 15th at 1:24 pm

    Hey this is such a great Idea; I will definitely be using this.

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  56. Michelle Nov 16th at 3:42 am

    This is absolutely great!

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  57. Chris Nov 16th at 4:47 am

    like it!

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  58. Christopher Nov 16th at 11:05 pm

    wow – INCREDIBLE guys, thanks. this is why I’m a die-hard WordPress fan. keep up the great work!

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  60. whi5t1er Nov 17th at 3:25 am

    I have been waiting for somthing like this.

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  61. cupondeal.com Nov 17th at 5:29 am

    I like that you can put several tweets in one post.

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  63. cupondeal.com Nov 17th at 5:40 am

    i can’t search for text in the embedded tweet on my site. is this the way it should be?

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    • Justin Shreve Nov 17th 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.

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  64. netkingcol Nov 17th 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?

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  65. Astrid Nov 17th at 4:57 pm

    I tried it and i like it!

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  66. juanrico Nov 17th at 6:26 pm

    Cool! Useful! Fantabulous!!!!!!

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  68. wordpress man Nov 18th at 3:45 am

    Great idea. i love it Thanks you.

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  69. Esquin Wine Merchants Nov 18th 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?

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  70. Chris Barnhart Nov 18th 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.

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  71. thesockgarden Nov 18th at 1:05 pm

    Will definitely be using this sweet-tweet feature 🙂

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  72. planetproperty Nov 18th 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

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    • Justin Shreve Nov 19th 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.

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  73. maia21s Nov 18th at 8:17 pm

    nice

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  74. nguinn97 Nov 18th at 9:30 pm

    Sounds cool, but I deleted my twitter account. I guess I could just make another one.

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  75. brittanyborseth Nov 18th at 9:47 pm

    Good to know! Thanks

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  76. AnotherSociety Nov 18th at 9:48 pm

    Nice will try it out.

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  77. Mental Climax Nov 19th at 5:39 am

    I would love to make the most out of this feature.

    Keep it up, WordPress.

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  78. Real City Housewife Nov 19th at 6:57 am

    I love this! Makes my life so much easier!

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