Blackbird Pie puts tweets in your blog posts

5 May

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I noticed Twitter’s new Blackbird Pie feature today for the first time.

Have you ever come across a great tweet and wanted to share it with your blog readers? I have. And until today I had to take a screengrab of said tweet to post to my blog.

Not anymore. Twitters Blackbird Pie allows me to embed someone’s tweet, with all of the links intact.

I see a few good uses for media companies related to this:

In sports coverage, if you want to show what athletes on your beat are tweeting about.
If you cover a concert or event, and you want to show what others who attended were saying.
In breaking news situations, you can show what others (especially eye witnesses) are sharing about the news.

Here’s what the embedded tweets look like:

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