An easy way to embed tweets in a WordPress blog: copy and paste

Update: I just noticed that 99 people had read this blog post in October, which is too bad, because it’s out of date. It no longer works to cut and paste a tweet’s URL into WordPress. But you can cut and paste the embed code from Twitter into the text version of your post.

For several months, I enjoyed being able to embed tweets in my blog using Blackbird Pie. But a few months ago, the embeds stopped working. Today I learned that it’s easier than ever to embed tweets into a WordPress.com blog.

You just copy the URL of an individual tweet and paste it into the text (in visual format, not HTML) as a paragraph. And WordPress embeds the tweet:

Just learned: To embed a tweet in a wordpress.com blog post, just cut & paste URL into the story as a paragraph. Really easy.

— Steve Buttry (@stevebuttry) September 30, 2011

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Another TBD lesson: Transparency is the best approach in good times and bad

A series of tweets last night reminded me of a lesson I should have included when I blogged last month about lessons from my TBD experience.

David Cohn tweeted a link to a Noah Davis story about AOL’s Seed being pretty much defunct. I retweeted with my own comment, without a great deal of thought or analysis.

Transparency is much better than slow, silent decline. RT @Digidave: I'm reading: AOL's Seed Is 'Defunct' http://t.co/T49Oao3l

— Steve Buttry (@stevebuttry) September 30, 2011

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