So, of course, your Internet marketing expert has set up a Twitter account for you.
Did you know that your Twitter conversations can be expanded to include more people from your online community?
Ask your Internet marketing expert about embedded tweets which are one of the micro blogging site’s new features.
According to the folks at Social Media Examiner, the embedded tweets feature lets you take a tweet or a conversation and post it on your website or in a blog post. Simply put, you can take out a Tweet and share it even with your non-tweeting audience.
Embedded tweets also come with other interactive features which lets you or your Internet marketing expert:
• Reply to a tweet and join in on a conversation;
• Share the conversation with their Twitter community using the retweet feature;
• Mark the tweet as a favorite;
• View the Twitter profile of the author;
• Follow the tweet author; and
• View tweet replies by clicking on the tweet date.
An embedded tweet also lets people interact on your website. Is that cool or is that cool? Your site visitor won’t have to leave to tweet. It’s like having your own piece of Twitter.
Remember the time when the only way to share a single tweet was through screen capture? Embedded tweets let you and your Internet marketing expert capture the graphic elements of Twitter so your audience is visually engaged. Plus if you embed a reply, Twitter includes the original tweet (it gives you the whole conversation view) so the tweets are in context. Photos (from pic.twitter.com) and YouTube videos also appear when embedded.
Now, on to the most important part: how do you create an embedded tweet?
(Note: If this gets too technical for you, you can always ask your Internet marketing expert or your social media agency.)
The main step is to get the HTML code to create an embedded tweet. To do this:
1. Locate the tweet you want to embed.
2. Hover your mouse cursor over the tweet and click the Expand option.
3. Next, click Details.
4. Click on the Embed this Tweet option.
5. Choose the alignment you want for your tweet. (Choose one of the options, otherwise, your embedded tweet will look like a block quote similar to the posting location.
6. Finally, click inside the HTML code box to highlight your embedded tweet code.
Voila!
Come back tomorrow for the second part of this post!