@fbrunel she couldn’t afford the taxes here.
— Carl Mercier (@cmercier) October 31, 2012
Tag: twitter
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Tweet of the day goes to @cmercier!
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Twitter profiles now support header images
I’ve set mine up. 🙂 You can read more about their upgraded profiles here.
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Twitter / WordPress Feature Request
You know what would be awesome? If @twitter could scan wp.me URLs for media, like they do in #newtwitter with TwitPict, YouTube, Vimeo, etc.
— Stephane Daury (@stephdau) November 7, 2010
Note that Facebook does this already.
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Testing Twitter Blackbird Pie
We’ve enabled a really neat feature on WordPress.com recently. The ability to display tweets in all their glory as simple as pasting a link in your post as shown below.
Testing Twitter Blackbird Pie: http://t.co/LTB6PdE
— Stephane Daury (@stephdau) November 7, 2010
This is made possible by the excellent Twitter Blackbird Pie plugin, which this post is a test of
on myself-hosted blog(see update below). 🙂This plugin is:
- a simple alternative to running a more complete plugin such as Tweet Import or Fresh from FriendFeed and Twitter (also interesting).
- an effective way of importing such data (though unstructured) since Twitter Blackbird Pie stores the HTML output of the tweet in a custom field.
- very easy to use as it supports shortcodes (with a GUI) and even inline
oEmbedembeds so you only have to paste the tweet’s URL on its own line for the import to work. - even SEO-friendly since the tweet is here as text, not as a screenshot as so many people do.
I’ve been considering running an import plugin forever but never did because ultimately, I don’t want all my tweets on my blog. This will likely work better for me because I just have to selectively post the ones I want. Bonus: it also works with other people’s tweets when I want to quote them.
Update: The implementation you see above is in fact the one on WordPress.com, since I have now moved this blog to it.