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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Cool! Can’t wait to use it!
Cool duo!
its really amazing! I’ve been waiting for it. Nice feature
I have the Tweet on a line by itself and it’s not working…
Is the tweet private? If we couldn’t reach the tweet in question we do not convert the link into the full display.
amazing & very cool!!! 😉
This is really cool and useful. Thanks for sharing ways to use Twitter!
Excellent, a really useful tool
Cool.
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
Go into HTML mode and make sure that no HTML is on the same line including paragraph (<p>) tags.
great job!
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)?
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!
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”.
We don’t have anything to import Tweets automatically yet.
This is a good thing!!!!!!
It’s not private… Just tried again and it’s now working. Looks fantastic… thank you WordPress!
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″]?
We aren’t using any type of shortcode for it. Just put the Tweet URL on it’s own line and it should work.
AMAZING! Going to set this up very soon!!
Twitter is painfully dull and I fail to see how tweeting can improve my blogging.
I can’t wait to get started with this new tweet method.
This is pretty cool!
Wow, I can’t believe how simple this is. I will use it right away, thanks for the info.
Awesome idea!!
WEWW BRILLIANT IDEA!!!!!
Love love love love love this. Will be using it a lot. Thank you!
Thank you for a great thinking
I’m testing this right now.
I’ll bet I’ll love it!
Great!!
Great idea!! Thanks.
Pretty cool. Thanks for the update.
Wow. That is cool. Just cool.
That’s mega-awesome. I never even thought of such a thing. Thanks again.
Will this work with the new Twitter?
Yes, it will work with the new URLs that have #! in them.
A long-awaited feature finally see the light of the day. Thank You very much WordPress! You’re the best 🙂
Nice, I don’t know how many times I’ve taken screen shots before. This is much better!
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.
This is great idea, thanks.
Wow, cracking development!
I’m still new at this, but it sounds like something that will work very good for my blog. Thank you 🙂
Absolutely great idea. I like it.
this gr8 idea
all thanks , i like it
It is not working for me.
I made sure there are no links. It’s just the address on a line all by itself.
http://twitter.com/#!/woodelijah/status/3509566914428928
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?
http://twitter.com/#!/woodelijah/status/3509566914428928
Please tell me what’s going on.
Check under Settings and then Media.
“Enable auto-embeds” should be enabled. We will add this to the FAQ.
Loved it.
I did what you said and it’s working now..
Fantastic! I’ll definitely be using this. 🙂
And WordPress does it once more!
You guys continue to keep on making WP bigger and better!
Amazing!
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?
Have you tried Publicize?
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?
Hey this is such a great Idea; I will definitely be using this.
This is absolutely great!
like it!
wow – INCREDIBLE guys, thanks. this is why I’m a die-hard WordPress fan. keep up the great work!
I have been waiting for somthing like this.
I like that you can put several tweets in one post.
i can’t search for text in the embedded tweet on my site. is this the way it should be?
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.
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?
I tried it and i like it!
Cool! Useful! Fantabulous!!!!!!
Great idea. i love it Thanks you.
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?
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.
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.
Will definitely be using this sweet-tweet feature 🙂
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
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.
nice
Sounds cool, but I deleted my twitter account. I guess I could just make another one.
Good to know! Thanks
Nice will try it out.
I would love to make the most out of this feature.
Keep it up, WordPress.
I love this! Makes my life so much easier!