Twitter released a new version last week and included the capabilities to deliver embedded tweets.
WordPress founder Matt Mullenwegs blogged about this addition and WordPress supports embedded tweets on its hosted blogs in a couple of ways. The Twitter Blackbird Pie or the Twitter Embed shortcode
As this is a standalone WordPress blog I had two options:
So without further ado, here are the two options in action:
Twitter Blackbird Pie Plugin
Twitter generated HTML
Just applied a new Twitter theme called “Sandy Shore” to my profile, take a look! Got it from TweetyGotBack.com
— Peter Sellars (@PeterSellars) December 23, 2011
I feel the Twitter generated HTML currently meets my expectations better than the Twitter Blackbird Pie Plugin.
The Twitter Blackbird Pie Plugin does not have a ‘follow’ button and has inserted the shortened url rather than the link alias. I would also like some of the capabilities offered by WordPress’ shortcode options included in the Plugin. I shall have to do a bit more digging I think!