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Twitter Tuesday - embeddable tweets and an Android app!
Hey Twitter fans! We're back with another Twitter Tuesday, collecting interesting Twitter news and apps from the past week into one handy post for your reading enjoyment.
This week, Twitter's rolling out a new feature that bloggers will be particularly interested in: embedded tweets. Instead of taking a screenshot of a tweet you want to quote, which has been standard practice since the beginning, you can now use a little snippet of HTML to post a tweet on any webpage. Now tweets on other webpages will have a standard look and feel, making them instantly recognizable as quotes from Twitter. Take a look at the way an embedded tweet will look, after the jump.
Of course, this isn't a real embedded tweet. It's still just a screenshot from Twitter's media page. The code should be launching soon, though. What do you think? Are tweets really "the new quotes?" Is this what the future of journalism looks like?
The other big news this week is Twitter's official Android app. The Twitter team worked with Google to create a slick app with a very Android-y look and feel. It's got all of the features you'd expect from an official Twitter app, including geotagging, photo sharing and more. Google is going to open source the code, so even more improvements are expected in the future. Honestly, Android Twitter clients have been lagging behind their iPhone counterparts for quite some time, and this new app is a huge step toward evening the playing field.
Unfortunately, it's only available for Android 2.1 users.
If you don't like tweeting from some newfangled Twitter app, and you'd rather send and receive Twitter messages via good old-fashioned email, you should check out TweetByMail. It integrates with your existing email service -- and works especially well with Gmail -- to deliver your tweets and let you send them out as the subject line of an email. Okay, kind of lame, but it does offer a useful keyword tracking feature.
It saddens me to end this week's post on a low note, but it looks like Twitter has suspended the accounts of a couple of torrent sites. TorrentFreak is reporting that, although Twitter has been using BitTorrent to optimize parts of its back end, it also seems to consider the accounts of torrent sites like YourBittorent and TorrentSurf to be abusing Twitter. I'd love to hear from the big T about whether there were real violations here, or whether (as TorrentFreak seems to think) Twitter is out to get torrent sites.
Well, our time is up for this week. See you back here next Tuesday to let you know about the latest happenings and apps in the Twitterverse. Twitter Tuesday ... out!
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Subscribe to commentsFox318May 4th 2010 5:50PM
The new twitter app makes me wish I didn't pay for Twidroid pro.
ChaseMay 4th 2010 9:59PM
I would use the new Android app if it allowed for multiple accounts. I control my news organization's twitter account and need to be able to tweet on the go from both my personal and work accounts.