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You Can Now Embed Tweets Within Tweets – is Twitter’s ‘Retweet With Comment’ Coming Soon?

Huge update from Twitter today that, while appearing fairly simple on first look, could be an early indication of some big changes on the platform: you can now embed tweets within tweets.

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I'm trying the newly launched embeddable tweets feature on Posterous. What instantly came to mind was to embed my movie tweets (micro reviews) into a post that'll easily be readable, also giving me a list of movies I've watched in 2011. When thats getting edited and embedded, I thought it'd be more interesting and useful to embed some tweets I've favorited during 2011. Some are thoughtful, some funny, and some simply because I liked them.

This was going to be my wedding day, but life is full of surprises. After all is said & done, staying single is probably for the best.

— Hugh Hefner (@hughhefner) June 18, 2011

"When u can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment"

— sangeeth sivan (@sangeethsivan) November 6, 2011

Today (Oct 31) Tamil talkies completes 80 years of talkies. Same day, 80 years back Kalidas, the 1st Tamil talkie was released .

— Sreedhar Pillai (@sri50) October 31, 2011

More things are misplaced in the zeal to organize and keep a home neat than if they were simply left lying around

— Ashok (@krishashok) July 19, 2011

உயர்ந்தவர்கள் நம்மைத் தேடி வந்தால் 7 அடிகள் முன்னே சென்று வரவேற்கணுமாம்,அவர்கள் செல்லும்போது 7 அடிகள் பின்னே சென்று வழிவிடணுமாம்.மரியாதை!

— என். சொக்கன் (@nchokkan) December 14, 2011

Whoah!! RT @vatsala: another is a usage - "cut and right a solren" whose origins are "curt and dry" in english

— Chinmayi Sripaada (@Chinmayi) November 13, 2011

“It is better to be admired than to be popular. Strive to better yourself; not to please others.” Nice quote to end the day

— Dhananjayan Govind (@Dhananjayang) September 18, 2011

Am told that one's fav films say a lot abt u. My recent favs: Up in the Air, RevolutionaryRoad, Somewhere, Lost in Translation, A Single Man

— Rajeev Masand (@RajeevMasand) December 7, 2011

It must be a bluemoon night. Three good films in one week! When did that last happen?

— Sudhish Kamath (@SudhishKamath) April 29, 2011

Saw Zindagi naa milegi dubaara, realized 90 percent of us arnt living, jst surviving. Salute to d remaining 10 percent. Happy fr em :)

— taapsee pannu (@taapsee) July 15, 2011

With 2 out of 3 ppl sick at home I'm indoors playing nurse. Its funny how d strangest of things brings u closer to ur family! Happy 2 serve

— Priya Anand (@PriyaWajAnand) July 16, 2011

Packing Material கண்ணாடி முட்டைகளை டப்டப்ன்னு உடைக்கும் பழக்கம் உண்டா? எனக்குண்டு. அதற்கு ஓர் iPhone App இருப்பது கண்டு திகைத்தேன்! #fb

— என். சொக்கன் (@nchokkan) June 18, 2011

Lovable ones:

"Never marry someone who doesn't love the movies you love. Sooner or later, that person will not love you." (Roger Ebert)

— Roger Ebert (@ebertchicago) August 29, 2011

If I hadnt spent all my money on making films, I could've bought a Merc. Wouldnt have been as satisfying. I can take more people on my film.

— Sudhish Kamath (@SudhishKamath) August 7, 2011

Finally, something especially for me :-)

“ Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. -Chinese Proverbs”. Great one

I had set out to watch Nanban in the evening. It's been more than two weeks since the movie released and I haven't caught a Shankar movie yet. Was ready by 5:45 p.m., and since it was Friday, the roads were lined with college buses and filled with students and all good people going home for the weekend, which lengthened a 10-min journey to nearly a 30-min one. From Vadasery, I took the route through the market and when I had another 2-min walk left to get to the theater, it was 6:32 p.m. I didn't put a step further on that route and just started walking backwards. I thought - to walk, get a ticket, get seated, it's going to take another 5 to 7 minutes and if the show had started on time, I already missed some. Maybe it was only ad-time by then and chances are that the movie still hasn't started playing. But I didn't want to take a chance. I'll make it another day! I'm going to watch it only once in the cinemas and so missing a minute of it really matters particularly for a Shankar flick. Years ago, I watched a movie multiple times simply because I had nothing else to do. Ticket prices are just too hot, you see, it burns :-)

6:45 p.m. - Cinema

Walked aimlessly putting my head down; now there's a whole evening left and none with me. Before further plans could strike me, I reached another cinema hall, which is actually closer to the place where I got down from the bus. It played a Chinese movie, 'The Sorcerer and the White Snake' dubbed to Tamil, named 'Bodhidharman.' I never wanted to watch it, but I also couldn't think beyond because I found people walking hurriedly into the theater and getting their tickets. The movie released just yesterday and maybe results by word of mouth have marked it good, I thought. I too walked in, got a ticket, not suprised that ticket price for a dubbed movie is no lesser than a direct Tamil movie. There is nothing else left but to watch this one to spend the evening. I went in, the movie hasn't begun, however, by 6:45 p.m. Then jewellery ads for 15 mins - almost every popular jeweller in South India had their share of exhibiting Gold, in their way, with models & stars. Well, it's a pleasure to watch these ads on widescreen with amazing photography, glittering graphic techniques, and melodic background tunes. Another understanding: This is why our movies don't glitter - they are lengthy. Keep them short, they'll shine. 

The movie through my tweets:

The Sorcerer & the WhiteSnake/Bodhidharman: More of fantasy than action. Blend of a lot; fantasy,romance,culture, snakes; total graphic play

— Bibin Kumar (@bibinkumar) January 27, 2012

The Sorcerer & the White Snake / Bodhidharman: Never expect some Jet Li-action, you'll cry over the money u lost. #TimePass[R: 4/10]

— Bibin Kumar (@bibinkumar) January 27, 2012

8:40 p.m. - Hotel Gowri Shankar (Vadasery)

I used to come here very often with Ranjith, but that's a long time ago. Haven't been here in years. That's the reason why I just got in here. It's one of the oldest Gowri Shankar pure vegetarian franchise. In the period between 1996 and 2000, we came here regularly after watching a movie. There's no change in the menu and my order always remained the same except the kind of dosa - masala, rava, onion, and others. This time, I want to nourish my dream with that starter rasa vadai and finally coffee in a dabarah. The coffee has gone up to Rs. 12. *in shock!* But you can pay for the taste - it remains the same - taken back in time by a surplus 12 to 16 years. Only the person who served it has changed. They have the same arrangement of tables/chairs/mirrors - the same way, nothing modern except the wash tap. Most people who come from other districts particulalry Thirunelveli, who step down at this bus stand would come here for lunch, coffee, or an early morning breakfast. There are a lot of other new restaurants nearby now, but it's good to see this old-fashioned one still crowded.

9:00 p.m. - Market

Now, instead of taking the direct route to the bus stand, I took the market route (Vadasery Vegetable Market) with many gates; one road from within the market leads you directly to the bus stand. Shops have started closing down - it's five minutes past nine. There wasn't much of a crowd. (Usually, when my mom asks me to accompany her to the market, I simply yell at her, but many times I have walked through these roads and the crowd just to get a feel of the freshness of their substance in the air. Anything green, you get it here!)

Just as I walked along, some fruit vendors started inviting me to their shops calling out rates of fruits. It isn't unusual there. I kept walking: The fuits section ends here, and there I can see buses. I simply stopped by the last shop and asked for seedless green grapes. I was doing something unusual, but felt I should do it. Bought half a kilo of grapes for Rs. 30 - I didn't know if it was fair price, bad price, and I didn't even try to bargain. After packing, he asked me if I needed sapotas as that they cost only Rs. 10 per kg. I was taken by surprise. I didn't know that there was something available in the market for 10 rupees or less per kilogram. I asked him to weigh half a kilo. He didn't even care to listen, he weighed them for a kilo. I said half was largely enough and that it was not a matter of money but there was no one at home now and I didn't want to waste it. He said, "that's the same here, we too don't have anyone to buy all these, take a kilo.." and then smiled. I smiled widely. I started feeling so happy like I have bought the best thing available in the market for Rs.10, that weighed a kilo and was heavy too. It may be simply because I haven't been to markets regularly buying stuff and that this often happened in markets when things came in surplus. But the fact that this day turned out to be so good that the best 10-rupees I spent for the day was for a fruit and that now I'm going to be healthy and happy eating sappotas made me more happy.

I came home with a bag full of things with no one to hand it over. Before I could get them arranged in the fridge, I rang mom, "You know, now I know how to shop at the vegetable market; I bought my fav fruit for Rs. 10, and I got enough items filled in the refrigerator for the next one week. You better stay there. I know to live! :-D" Mom laughed the wildest laugh ever through a phone.

Twitter has announced the ability to embed tweets on your site! Once the tweet appears on your blog or website, your Twitter readers can follow the user, retweet, reply, or favorite from within the embedded tweet. This is so cool! Love the new Twitter and its improved functionality.

Try it now on this embedded tweet!

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Post Via: Posted by Kipp Bodnar at blog.hubspot.com

The most important new Twitter feature for marketers isn't brand pages. Yes, you read that first sentence correctly. As part of its redesign announcement last week, Twitter revealed brand pages as well as a host of other features. Yes, brand pages are cool, but in reality, they don't offer much more value for a business over personal profiles aside from a little bit more control.

Embeddable tweets are the game changer in this most recent round of Twitter improvements for marketers. The fact is, the true power and leverage of much of social media marketing resides outside of the network itself. For many marketers, their biggest communities are outside of social media. For example, email list, website visitors, blog subscribers, etc. In the past, it has been a struggle to use these existing communities to supercharge social media efforts. Now, embeddable tweets helps make that a little easier. Your website or blog visitors can follow, retweet, or click on a link in an embedded tweet without ever having to leave your site. This is HUGE! Less friction means more conversions.

How to Embed a Tweet Using The New Twitter Web Design

Lets get right to it. Here is a step-by-step look at how you can embed a tweet.

Step 1: Sign into Twitter.com, and select a tweet you would like to embed. Then click "Open."

Step 2: Once the tweet is open, click on the "Details" link.

Step 3: Click the "Embed this Tweet" link.

Step 4: Select alignment, and then copy the HTML code.

Step 5: Paste the HTML into your website or blog editor and POOF!, your tweet is now embedded! 

Read more: http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/29822/7-Epic-Uses-of-Twitter-s-New-Embeddable-Tweets-Feature.aspx#ixzz1gvyImecu

7 Epic Uses of Twitter's New Embeddable Tweets Feature

Now that you are a tweet-embedding machine, we need to go over some best practices for using embedded tweets. While I'm sure you can think of more, these seven uses should serve as a great primer on your path to becoming a tweet embedding ninja.

1. Showcase Customer Testimonials - In the past, businesses who received a positive comment on Twitter could "favorite" it on their account by clicking the yellow star, but that really didn't do much for them to showcase that awesome feedback. Now, if someone tweets at you with some kind words, you can embed that tweet on your product or case study pages to add credibility to prospects investigating your business.

2. Curate Awesome Content for a Blog Post - Sometimes the best blog posts come from the knowledge of experts outside of your company. Ask industry experts a question. Use the question as a title of your blog post, and then embed the tweets to support the text you were planning to write about the subject.

3. Encourage Sharing of Lead Generation Offers - Look at your marketing analytics, and determine if Twitter is an important source of leads and traffic for your business. If it is, then you might want to consider embedding a tweet on your landing page for a lead generation offer that encourages visitors to retweet and share the offer.

4. Conduct a Social Poll - Want to get feedback on an issue and do it in a way that leverages the virality of social networks? Create a poll question in a blog post. Make each of the responses individual tweets, and have visitors retweet the tweet they are voting for. This helps you collect valuable feedback and spread the poll to the followers of each of your participants.

5. Event Summary Blog Posts - One of the best things to do after attending a trade show is to write a summary post of everything you learned and mention people that you chatted with. Embedded tweets make this type of blog post even easier. Embed your favorite tweets from people you met at the event. This will not only help them get more followers and retweets, but also encourage them to share your summary post.

6. Create a More Social Newsroom - Too many company newsrooms are boring. A cluttered page of press release links and executive headshots doesn't sell a reporter on the awesomeness of your company. Embed tweets from customers, partners, and industry influencers talking about your business to give reporters visiting your newsroom an improved perception of your company.

7. Build More Social Emails - Embedded tweets are nothing more than a little bit of HTML code. This means that you can embed them anywhere you use HTML. Use HTML email templates? Then you can socialize your email newsletter by embedding relevant tweets!

These are just a few ways to use Twitter's awesome new embedded tweets feature. Do you have other suggestions? Please leave them in the comments.

Image Credit: JoshSemans