There’s a new feature out from Twitter – one that we bloggers will truly appreciate. Previously, if you wanted to show someone’s tweet, you had to do a screen grab and then a little Photoshop work. It was arduous, time-consuming – even hellish. No more! Now you can embed a tweet (a phrase that would have made no sense even a few years ago) thanks to Twitter’s new feature, Blackbird Pie. You go to the page, paste in your tweet of choice, and – BLAMMO! You’ve got code, my friends.
.bbpBox{background:url(http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/65026938/twitter_back6.png) #C0DEED;padding:20px;}p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px}p.bbpTweet span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:8px;padding-top:12px;height:40px;border-top:1px solid #fff;border-top:1px solid #e6e6e6}p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author{line-height:19px}p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 7px 0 0px;width:38px;height:38px}p.bbpTweet a:hover{text-decoration:underline}p.bbpTweet span.timestamp{font-size:12px;display:block}
You can now embed tweets using “Blackbird Pie.” No word on whether four and twenty blackbirds are baked within.
UPDATE: One flaw I’m noticing is that it keeps displaying my post time as “less than a minute ago,” even though I wrote this several days ago.