Tweets

Embed A Tweet In Your Blog Post

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Twitter has recently added a feature that lest us to integrate or embed any tweet in to the web pages by generating HTML code for that particular tweet.Blackbird Pie lets you embed tweets into any web page by generating static HTML tweets for posts.

1. Go to Blackbird Pie and enter the full Twitter tweet URL there (as you see in the screenshot) and click Bake it.

Blackbird Pie enter Tweet URL

2. It will now generate an embeddable HTML code along with a preview to show how that particular tweet will look on your site after embedding.

twitter blackbird pie tweet preview

If you are not familiar with working on HTML code, avoid editing the code as far as possible.Just use copy and paste.

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Google’s New Launches: Google Follow Finder & Twitter Replay

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Google is clearly showing its love for Twitter nowadays.Yesterday (April 14, 2010) Google has made 2 announcements both relating to twitter related features launch in Google.

The first one which was announced earlier was called Google’s Twitter replay that lest you search.Twitter replay will allow you to recall what had happened on anyway in the past courtesy the twitter tweets.To use this feature, click on the “Show Options” when you search for anything in Google.Then choose “Updates” from the sidebar menu.You can see a horizontal graphic chart which represents the volume of the tweets tweeted within a particular period of time, you can always go back to the history by using the backward arrow link just below the chart.You can click on any date/period to see the tweets about that topic in the given period.To see how it actually works, follow this link.

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Google Follow Finder:

Google Follow Finder is yet another Twitter related feature that was announced by Google yesterday.Follow finder analyzes public social graph information on twitter to find people that you might want to follow on Twitter.To use this feature, enter Google Follow Finder site and enter your Twitter user name and search for Tweeps.

Google follow finder

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Twitter Is Hitting 50 Million Tweets Per Day !!

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The world’s most popular microblogging site Twitter has revealed site metrics in a blog post earlier today.

As per the data chart provided, you can see that the number of tweets per day have been are on the rise exponentially and just crossing 50 million mark in Jan-Feb 2010.

Twitter tweets per day chart

The number of tweets per day have gone up from 5,000 tweets per day in 2007 to 300,000 in 2008, to 2.5 million per day in 2009, and now they have grown enormously to 50 million tweets per day (600 tweets per second on average).

These values are exclusive of the tweets from twitter accounts marked as spam.Twitter however has to go a long way to if it wants to beat the giant sites in its genre like YouTube that serves a billion videos every day and Facebook where users spend 8 billion minutes per day.

Search Engine Land blog has an interesting post comparing Facebook, twitter and the new bee Google Buzz:

Facebook status updates: 700 per second
Twitter tweets: 600 per second
Buzz posts: 55 per second