Twitter Launches The Blackbird Pie Tweet Embedder (And Man, Is It Ugly)

We were told it would be very simple. And it is. But nobody said it would be so ugly.

Earlier today, Twitter launched Blackbird Pie, a tool which allows you to convert tweets into embeddable code that can be placed onto any website. It’s a nice idea, certainly from Twitter’s perspective, as all those embedded tweets can easily be tracked and accounted for.

What we really wanted was just a couple of lines of code. You know, something elegant that you could quickly add to any website.

Instead, we get this monstrosity.

Man, that’s a lot of code.

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