Embed tweets?

Seamus

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What do y'all think about adding a shortcode that allows us to embed tweets, and/or facebook posts? I was thinking it might be a useful feature since its seems like we're doing a fair bit of tweeting around here and because alot happens on twitter and direct embedding might be easier than screenshots and links. I found this SMF plugin/mod:

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3837

It allows you to use the tweet's id number to embed like so:

[tweet]824062114541113344[/tweet]

Twitter also gives you "embed" code in blockquotes like this:

Code:

but when I bracket it with the embed brackets the forum just shows the HTML:




Facebook provides similar embed code for its posts. Maybe there's a way to extend the functionality of the existing embed brackets?

Does anyone else think a feature like this might be useful? It might just make the forum noisier, I'm not sure...
Ant22

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Seamas said:
(...) Twitter also gives you "embed" code in blockquotes like this:

Code:

but when I bracket it with the embed brackets the forum just shows the HTML:


(...)
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I think Seamas was referring to embedding tweets and facebook posts but I've just tried to embed a video found on Twitter and encountered the same problem. I did use the 'embed video' link provided by Twitter and not just the Tweet URL.

I take it this functionality hasn't been expanded and it's only possible to embed YouTube videos in forum posts?
Beau

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I think just directly linking to tweets is simple enough. It's useful for example to embed stuff on SOTT, but on the forum I don't think it's a big deal.

Ant22 said:
I take it this functionality hasn't been expanded and it's only possible to embed YouTube videos in forum posts?
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Yes, that's correct.
Ant22

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Beau said:
I think just directly linking to tweets is simple enough. It's useful for example to embed stuff on SOTT, but on the forum I don't think it's a big deal.

Ant22 said:
I take it this functionality hasn't been expanded and it's only possible to embed YouTube videos in forum posts?
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Yes, that's correct.
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Great, thanks for the answer Beau :)
Ant22

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Seamas said:
SocietyoftheSpectacle said:
Quite easy to take a screen shot.

and leave a link below.
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Good call!
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Yeah, thanks for the tip SocietyoftheSpectacle. That's actually a really effective idea :)
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