November 5th, 2010

The WordPress Twitter Blackbird Pie Tool Brings Back The Old School Retweet!

While doing the post about WordPress implementing Twitter’s Blackbird Pie tool, I noticed something interesting. The tool brings back something Twitter had long since left for dead: the old school Retweet!

When you insert a Tweet URL into a WordPress.com blog post now, it will automatically generate a nice-looking Tweet in that post, complete with working links. But it also adds a “Retweet” link… → Read More

November 5th, 2010

WordPress Enables Blackbird Pie. Just Grab A Tweet URL And It Appears In Your Content

Back in May, Twitter unveiled a small tool called Blackbird Pie. Essentially, it was a way to the process of using a Tweet in a blog post easier. Rather than having to take a screenshot of the Tweet, you could just copy the URL into Blackbird Pie and out would pop some dynamically generated code for embedding the Tweet in your post, complete with working links. It was an interesting idea, sadly… → Read More

May 5th, 2010

Here's An Easier, Faster Way To Embed Tweets

@robinwauters I made a bookmarklet for twitter blackbird: http://bit.ly/aL4QVG (3 steps instead of 9 to embed a tweet), could be useful 4 uWed May 05 07:18:34 via TweetieXavier Dammanxdamman

As we had noted earlier, Twitter yesterday launched a new tool that allows you to easily embed tweets into a website or blog post. The tool, called Blackbird Pie, simply asks you for the URL of a tweet and… → Read More