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Seen on Twitter 5/17/2010

Posted on May 17 , 2010 in Intelligence & Links


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  • Michael Sommermeyer

    I did. I should have provided the link to the ‘trick’. You can actually find it at http://media.twitter.com/blackbird-pie/. The trick is to add a Blackbird Bookmarklet on your browser tool bar. You can get it here: http://tigtag.me/1o.

    Once you add the Blackbird bookmarklet you can click on it and it will create the code that you place in your blog post. Just cut-and-paste. I found the Twitter code broke up the Tweets and they looked cluttered (I’m guessing it tries to use your CSS in your blog).

    Anyway, I think this will be an excellent way for me to point out FridayFollow suggestions and show why I’m following people. It also seems like an easier way for me to track interesting Tweets beyond just adding them as Favorites. (And there’s always Google Buzz to keep track of favorites, if I could just figure out how to lasso it!).

    M.

  • lauraclick

    Interesting stuff. Did you use Blackbird Pie to embed the tweets? Looks nice! And, I love how the links are active.

  • http://www.wordymouth.com/ WordyMouth

    I did. I should have provided the link to the 'trick'. You can actually find it at http://media.twitter.com/blackbird-pie/. The trick is to add a Blackbird Bookmarklet on your browser tool bar. You can get it here: http://tigtag.me/1o.

    Once you add the Blackbird bookmarklet you can click on it and it will create the code that you place in your blog post. Just cut-and-paste. I found the Twitter code broke up the Tweets and they looked cluttered (I'm guessing it tries to use your CSS in your blog).

    Anyway, I think this will be an excellent way for me to point out FridayFollow suggestions and show why I'm following people. It also seems like an easier way for me to track interesting Tweets beyond just adding them as Favorites. (And there's always Google Buzz to keep track of favorites, if I could just figure out how to lasso it!).

    M.

  • lauraclick

    I knew about blackbird pie on the Twitter media page, but I wasn't aware of the bookmarklet. Good stuff! Thanks for sharing. I've installed it and look forward to giving it a go. Yes, this holds promise for #FollowFriday if you want to create a blog post for that instead of a tweet.