How To Embed a Tweet

[Rich]

This is a few extra steps from just highlighting and copying text from a tweet, but the display is much better when you get the actual tweet embedded.

1. Assuming you see the Tweet in the Twitter feed, click on the name of the person who has the Tweet you want to embed so that it opens in Twitters website.
2. At the bottom of the tweet you will see three dots (...)  Click on that then choose Copy Link to Tweet.
3. A pop up will appear with the link highlighted.  Use CTRL-C to copy this.
4. Use CTLR-V to paste the link in your post.

Thats all you have to do.  The site will recognize the URL and convert it to an embedded tweet.

[kelownabomberfan]

how about Youtube?  I used to just cut and paste a Youtube link and it would pop up as a video, now just the link appears.  Thanks Rich!

[Rich]

YouTube works for me.  Could you send me an example of the URL you tried?

[kelownabomberfan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgxwLQsM0iM

[Rich]

39 minutes ago, kelownabomberfan said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgxwLQsM0iM

I think it is because you pasted it as a full html link instead of just text.  This editor will try to keep whatever formatting you have from your source copy. It needs to just be text with no formatting to auto embed.   So a couple of options:

1. When copying the link, copy it from the address bar of your browser and it shouldn't carry any other formatting.
2. Hold down command + right-click (This could be something other than command on a Windows machine), then a pop-up menu will allow you to paste without formatting.
3. Click the last icon on the right of the toolbar (looks like a movie film + music note).  This is an embed media button.  You can paste the URL in there to embed it

On a side note, for people who have tried quoting someone then changed your mind and couldn't get rid of the quote ... that command + right click on the quote will give you an option to delete it.

[Rich]

About the embedding ... I should also note that if you did this shortly after the upgrade of the site, only #3 above would have worked or it would have been converted to a link (and if that is what you just copied and pasted, it would remain a link).

There have been a few updates since the upgrade, one was auto embedding.

 

[The Unknown Poster]

Good to know!  Am I crazy or did Twitter change things....I used to be able to select copy using Twitter ap on iPhone and it would paste the author of the tweet. Now it only pastes the tweet and not the author