Tag Archives: Plugins

Twitter Embeds or Snarks with Frickin’ Laser Beams

Posted on by Joe Pahl

You may have noticed some blogs (TechCrunch, Mashable, etc.) are now embedding tweets directly into their posts. By embedding Twitter posts, rather than inserting screenshots or copying and pasting text, the links become clickable, the text becomes searchable and the user’s custom profile styles are added to the embed. Most importantly, it looks cool.

"Twitter Embeds or Snarks with Frickin' Laser Beams" How to embed tweets with Blackbird Pie. BONUS: Cringeworthy puns! http://joey.is/yx7vp
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Joe Pahl

The feature is called Blackbird Pie. It was published by Twitter Media (@twittermedia on Twitter). They provide, “Knowledge and tools to help you use Twitter to transform TV, entertainment, sports and journalism.” Twitter Media has published a variety of Twitter guidelines, metrics tools and API resources. Their blog is a great source for new features and Twitter news.

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The Long, Long Story of a Really, Really Short Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

Posted on by Joe Pahl

Before I get into anything else, I want to point out my awesome new top-level domain (TLD), [dot]is. It comes courtesy of the Republic of Iceland. I borrowed the idea from noted WordPress guru, John Ford. I imagine that [dot]ises (it’s fun to say ises) will be more widely used in the future. Registering the domain was fairly simple and I’m paying less than I would have expected.

After registering joepahl.is I looked at what else I could lockdown. There are a lot of [dot]is domains available. Just for grins I checked joey.is. Lo and behold is was available! I had been planning on creating a link shortener at a subdomain of joepahl.is, but this was even better.

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