TweetPaste is a small Webapp written in around 12 hours, that allows Twitter users to embed tweets into blog posts or pages by copying a snippet of HTML. It’s proven to be a popular app, with over 1,100 tweets embedded so far.

Twitter is a social media phenomenon that came into its own in 2008. Once you’ve created an account, you simply post a message telling the world what you’re up to. As you find people of interest, you can “follow” them to find out what they’re doing, and engage in public or private discussions with them.

Because tweets (the messages people posts to Twitter) are often posted as part of a discussion, people like to include them in their blog posts. This used to be done by either copying and pasting the message into their post - which is pretty laborious - or they’d use their graphics package to take a screenshot of the page that contained the tweet, cut around it, upload the image and drop it into the post...which is even more time-consuming!

Now users can go to tweetpaste.net, paste the URL of their message and grab some HTML which they can paste directly into the blog post. This gives users a pre-formatted block that is formatted in a similar way to the one you’ll find on Twitter. It includes the twitterer’s name, link and image and the date the tweet was posted. Brilliant!

There's good news and bad about this problem, that's been plaguing TweetPaste over the last week or so. Django, the system that TweetPaste is built on, can currently only store numbers up to a certain size. After that, rather than giving us an error, it just stores the ...

I'm so excited. Finally after nearly 18 months of TweetPaste's existence - and after its initial, shaky version - the new, "official" TweetPaste plugin for WordPress is available.

It couldn't be simpler to use, too. Just download it from wordpress.org (or directly from your WordPress admin area by ...

You can now use TweetPaste from your own applications by making a simple HTTP call to the following address:

 

http://tweetpaste.thingamaweb.com/api/gethtml/

 

and passing in the following arguments:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

id	Required	The ID of the tweet, as obtained by going to http://twitter.com, clicking the timestamp of ...

TweetPaste is getting a facelift, and more importantly a boatload of new features.

Soon you’ll be able to customise the look of the embeddable box the app produces. You can change the width and height (although the height will magically auto-expand for longer tweets), and hide certain areas you ...

After a pretty hefty period of down-time (not strictly true; the site was “up”, just not working!) TweetPaste is back, allowing you to embed tweets into your blog posts and pages.

Expect a full, version-controlled WordPress plugin soon.

Thanks for your patience!

Thanks to the various comments made across the interwebs and in the Wishlist, TweetPaste now has a few improvements:

 

 

 

1. Just like twitter.com, the time is now a permalink to the original tweet (thanks Mike Bogle). The timing accuracy has also been improved, so a tweet posted 30 minutes ago ...

So it’s 3am and TweetPaste has just gone live after being tested on my home PC. It needed to be uploaded now because the WordPress plugin that I’ve just written needed a live URL. So here it is!

Really pleased to have got it all written in less ...