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PSA: Embedding Tweets, Instructions In Pictures

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Okay, here are the steps for embedding a tweet, in screenshots. Because I’ve seen at least three different directions. If this doesn’t work for you, it may be a bug.

Step ONE:

Choose your tweet. The embed code is in the drop-down menu in the upper right-hand corner.
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Step Two

Click on the drop-down menu, choose embed tweet

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Step Three

Copy the embed code

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Step Four

In the Balloon-Juice comment box, chose TEXT tab

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Step Five

Copy PASTE embed code into TEXT box

 

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You can click on the visual tab to see that it embedded correctly and then add your own comment above or below it.

 

I hope that helps. You can use this thread to practice, report bugs and or Open Thread.

 

Other notes: There will be no recipe post tonight and also, our beautiful Silver Merle Great Dane has been adopted by a family filled with kids and critters. He should be very happy.

 

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155Comments

  2. 2.

    chris

    Nice! Just a small nit, Step 5 should probably say Paste rather than Copy. *Ducks*

     

    ETA: good news about the Dane. Any news on Merlin the black cat?

  4. 4.

    Chris T.

    also, our beautiful Silver Merle Great Dane had been adopted by a family filled with kids and critters. He should be very happy

    Yay for adoptions!

  6. 6.

    zhena gogolia

    Biden on Graham: “Lindsey is about to go down in a way that I think he’s going to regret his whole life.”

    Asked what he would say to Graham, Biden said, “I say, ‘Lindsey, I just — I’m just embarrassed by what you’re doing, for you.’ I mean, my Lord.”https://t.co/nHTQrPQ0zn
    — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 22, 2019

    Trying to add a comment.

  13. 13.

    WaterGirl

    TaMara, would you mind if I link to this post in Balloon Juice News?  (under Calling All Jackals in the sidebar)  I have some other site related links in there, and I think this would be a good addition.  Let me know?

  15. 15.

    WaterGirl

    @zhena gogolia: I nearly wrote that in the previous thread: “Have we created a monster?”  But I didn’t because I was only kidding and didn’t want to take the chance that I might offend you.  But since you joked about it first, I think it’s safe.

  17. 17.

    Yarrow

    It looks like your images are from someone who is logged into Twitter. If you are not logged into Twitter you will not see options like “Follow” or “Mute” or “Block” in the drop down menu under the down arrow in the upper right corner.

  26. 26.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: It looks like you are trying to do quotes within quotes. I’m not sure whether this will annoy you or make you ridiculously happy, but I am considering changing the blockquote to the lovely blue outline with a shadow that we use on the front page. I have asked them to change it on the test site so I can make a final decision.

    Fine print: If anyone harangues me on the issue, it might influence me in the direction you might not want it to go.

  35. 35.

    Felanius Kootea

    Testing embed with script code left in like the example above. (ETA: nice – it no longer blocks me when the script code is left in).

    The question is not whether Trump has committed impeachable crimes. He has. The question is whether Republicans in Congress will affirm that an American president is not above the law.— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 22, 2019

  40. 40.

    The Dangerman

    Test

     

    https://publish.twitter.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FPatrick_Himself%2Fstatus%2F1197994490213961728&widget=Tweet

     

    ETA: Uh Oh. Cleanup on Aisle 40.

     

    <blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Cop pulls Trump over for running red light.<br><br>?‍♀️: You know why I’m stopping you?<br>?: Sad!<br>?‍♀️: You ran a light.<br>?: No ran light! No light ran. Ranning.<br>?‍♀️: I have video. Here.<br>?: Ok. He ran it. But no one stops for those things anymore.<br>?: No light! You’re a light! Lock her up!</p>&mdash; pc (@Patrick_Himself) <a href=”https://twitter.com/Patrick_Himself/status/1197994490213961728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>November 22, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>

     

     

    ETA Last: Fuck it. I’m going for dinner.

  44. 44.

    schrodingers_cat

    BJP won the most seats in the Maharashtra legislative assembly elections held last October but was still almost 50 short of an absolute majority. Their coalition partner who they had treated like dirt for the last 5 years walked out of the coalition both at the state and the national level. So it looks like a coalition sans BJP will take office in Maharashtra. They also lost Mumbai’s Municipal corporation because of this highhandedness. Schadenfreude I has it.

  50. 50.

    japa21

    The replies are precious.

    A lot of Americans have to be watching this all asking “Why are there so many non-US-born people working in our Intel and State Department?”— Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) November 21, 2019

  52. 52.

    Amir Khalid

    I realise that tweet is not the subject of the post, but by gum that’s the funniest correction I’ve ever seen.

  53. 53.

    TS (the original)

    @The Dangerman:

     

    That was my result when I forgot to swap to the test box. Hope this works

    Cop pulls Trump over for running red light.?‍♀️: You know why I’m stopping you??: Sad!?‍♀️: You ran a light.?: No ran light! No light ran. Ranning.?‍♀️: I have video. Here.?: Ok. He ran it. But no one stops for those things anymore.?: No light! You’re a light! Lock her up!— pc (@Patrick_Himself) 22 November 2019

  55. 55.

    LAO

    <blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>CNN BREAKING —&gt;<br><br>Giuliani associate PARNAS willing to tell Congress that Rep NUNES met with ex-Ukrainian official to get dirt on BIDEN<a href=”https://twitter.com/ChrisCuomo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@ChrisCuomo</a> and <a href=”https://twitter.com/VickyPJWard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@VickyPJWard</a> will break it down shortly on CNN – <a href=”https://twitter.com/CuomoPrimeTime?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@CuomoPrimeTime</a> <a href=”https://t.co/9dYN8JTPak”>https://t.co/9dYN8JTPak</a></p>&mdash; Vaughn Sterling (@vplus) <a href=”https://twitter.com/vplus/status/1198059361400184832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>November 23, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>

    eta that’s a fail

  59. 59.

    Yarrow

    @TS (the original):  PSA for anyone wondering why your embedded tweet is all one paragraph instead of in separate lines like it looks in the actual tweet. You have to go in and manually hit Enter at the end of lines. I find the br code in the brackets and hit Enter after that. Twice if there are two br codes. Here’s what it looks like with that done:

    Cop pulls Trump over for running red light.

    ?‍♀️: You know why I’m stopping you?
    ?: Sad!
    ?‍♀️: You ran a light.
    ?: No ran light! No light ran. Ranning.
    ?‍♀️: I have video. Here.
    ?: Ok. He ran it. But no one stops for those things anymore.
    ?: No light! You’re a light! Lock her up!

    — pc (@Patrick_Himself) November 22, 2019

  65. 65.

    Yarrow

    @WaterGirl:  I’ve been doing it for years. Find the br code in brackets and hit Enter after that. Two Enters if there are two br codes. By br code I mean this thing: <br>.

  90. 90.

    Dan B

    I did manage to copy a twitter link and I’m in the text box tab. Where is Paste?
    Samsung’s Galaxy 7

    I see: b, i, link, b-quote, ins, ul, ol, li, code, more, close tags

    That’s it.

  91. 91.

    Baud

    Bondy tells CNN that his client and Nunes began communicating around the time of the Vienna trip. Parnas says he worked to put Nunes in touch with Ukrainians who could help Nunes dig up dirt on Biden and Democrats in Ukraine, according to Bondy.

    That information would likely be of great interest to House Democrats given its overlap with the current impeachment inquiry into President Trump, and could put Nunes in a difficult spot.

    Bondy tells CNN his client is willing to comply with a Congressional subpoena for documents and testimony as part of the impeachment inquiry in a manner that would allow him to protect his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.

  99. 99.

    WaterGirl

    @Dan B: On an iPad you just hold your finger down in the box and it will ask if you want to paste what you copied.  I have no idea if the android devices work the same way, but maybe that will give you a jump start?

  102. 102.

    Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)

    This works too

    1974: What did the President know, and when did he know it?

    2019: If the President is caught red-handed, can he just make up some conspiracy theories about the other side and get away with it?

    — Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) November 22, 2019

  103. 103.

    LAO

    NEW: Indicted Giuliani associate Lev Parnas is willing to tell Congress about meetings Devin Nunes—the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee—had in Vienna last year with a former Ukrainian prosecutor to discuss digging up dirt on Joe Biden. https://t.co/sixNDBSDil
    — Vicky Ward (@VickyPJWard) November 23, 2019

    The whole thread! ????

  105. 105.

    Dan B

    @schrodingers_cat: Great news!!  Mumbai, by itself, used to be 10 percent of the economy.  That they lost the entirety of Maharashtra is frosting on the cake.  Pune must be a player now that Mumbai is bursting at the seams, not that crowding is a new thing.

  106. 106.

    Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)

    Last one.

    I can’t believe that I defended Donald Trump today.

    Someone said “Trump isn’t fit to sleep with pigs”, and I replied “He is too, so leave him alone”. ?
    — La-Z-Boy Liberal (@DarrinZiliak) November 23, 2019

  111. 111.

    AJ

    If you’re white and well-off and don’t belong to one of the groups Nazis target for violence, it’s easy to blithely discuss impeachment & “how it plays out” in politics w/o recognizing that you’re witnessing a fascist takeover led by people who already have camps built.
    — Bree Newsome Bass (@BreeNewsome) November 22, 2019

    Probably my favorite new Twitter follow. She’s the woman who climbed up the flagpole and got down the Confederate flag.

  116. 116.

    Aleta

    The secret to really creamy hummus: cream together lemon juice and tahini before adding the other ingredients.— TinyRecipes (@TinyRecipes) August 1, 2011

    And where’s that soggy plain?

    In Spain !
    In Spain !

  117. 117.

    FelonyGovt

    Stupid question. I don’t get an “embed tweet” menu item in that drop down menu. I just get “Show less often”, “follow”, “mute” etc. What am I doing wrong?

  118. 118.

    stinger

    We need election reform. These two year long presidential election cycles are media driven. It’s not necessary. So many people aren’t even paying attention yet.

    And those of us on Twitter who follow this stuff closely are driving ourselves mad.

    I can’t live like this.
    — ?Imani Gandied Yams? (@AngryBlackLady) November 22, 2019

    racticing.

  119. 119.

    Dan B

    @AJ: Much truth that straight white well off men view impeachment as a sporting event.  Schiff  as a Jewish man, and me as a gay man, might feel existential threats.  He would likely have heard many people who survived the holocaust and experienced anti-srmitism for years.  I was around for memes like pervertd, pedophlies, preying on young boys – tough when you are a 14 y.o., electroshock therapy, diseased, and much more.  It’s not It Can’t Happen Here it’s it Happened Here in my lifetime.

     

    It’s emotional when kids are in cages, young black men and trans women are being killed because if Pence gets installed it will get much worse.  It probably won’t directly affect me, unless Social Security is cut, but it’s not necessary to suffer trauma if you survivrd but witnessed the suffering of your community and were frequently powerless to prevent it.

     

    How is it that our journalists seem so oblivious?  How is it that younger LGB’s remain so quiet?

  127. 127.

    Dan B

    @AJ: OMG I just went to Bree’s twitter and the comments read like what I just wrote!

     

    At least there are a lot of us who recognize how dangerous the GOP and the far right could become.  And how the outcome of the election could unleash mob violence.  And the poor disturbed residents of Iowa and the suburbs would give into the mob in the belief the violence will stop.  But they would most likely give into a strongman.

  133. 133.

    Eljai

    @chris: I’m watching Ali Velshi (filling in for Lawrence O’Donnell) interviewing Austin Evers from American Oversight right now.  Does this mean the end of Pompeo’s dreams of becoming a senator, or nah?

  137. 137.

    J R in WV

    @Sebastian:

     

    One honest & respectful conversation on this would do wonders for the country.

     

    The problem there is expecting an honest conversation from a Russian stooge  [Senator Graham!] being blackmailed over something we won’t ever know about unless they throw over their Russian master, as in “Never”!

  139. 139.

    kentropic

    Time is always moving on, Nothing can stop it. The question is whether we use our time properly or not. We can’t do anything about the past, but what happens in the future depends on what we do now.
    — Dalai Lama (@DalaiLama) November 22, 2019

    Yep.

  142. 142.

    Aleta

    Just realized that this new site hasn’t once told me my comment was marked as spam, making me guess and try over and over to change it enough to be accepted.  It also seems like requests from people asking someone to free their comment are greatly reduced or almost down to 0 ?  I don’t miss the wasted time.

     

    Also, it seems like when I want to copy some info or tip from a commenter, copying that text to save is easier and cleaner.  Whatever you professionals did to streamline it… thanks!

  145. 145.

    Mary G

    @Aleta: Agree

    Also WaterGirl, as long as I’m praising, love that links open in a new tab and that the site doesn’t jump around as I’m clicking, making me open an ad I have no interest in.

  148. 148.

    Jay

    @Dan B:

    I’ve been posting the “heads up, Nazi’s are coming!” Stuff for a while now, because I know what is coming if the “conservatives” get their way.

    I’m an old white guy, so I could in theory sit it out, but I didn’t when I was a young skin head, and I am not going to now either.

    Back then the fight was for a world safe for friends and family, and it’s the same fight now.

    Proud to be an old race/gender/orientation/identity traitor.

  150. 150.

    AJ

    @Dan B: I hear you.

     

    It’s appalling what people without the well straight white male shield have had visited on them. I’m sorry for the trauma and violation on you and your community.

     

    The main thing that gives me what little hope I have is the accomplishments of WOC organizers as in Alabama, Virginia, and South Carolina.

  152. 152.

    AJ

    @Dan B: awesome!

     

    As much as people like to complain about Twitter I take great solace in the sense of being part of a larger group fighting for what’s right and sharing some good jokes along the way.

     

    Glad you found some of the good energy there =)

     

    @Jay: loved your comment! ??

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