# Embedded tweets: one more way to spread fundraising with Twitter further - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/05/10/embedded-tweets-one-more-way-spread-fundraising-twitter-further/ - Published: 2010-05-10T14:50:20+01:00 - Author: Howard Lake Messages sent via Twitter have, until now, been very easy to share via Twitter itself( of course) and via email, but reproducing them on web pages or elsewhere online has been hard. You needed to take a screen shot, save the image, and then insert it into your web page. Developments in the past week though mean that now we can embed tweets into web pages. The benefit of this is that some messages are going to be spread even further by being ‘quoted’ in this way on blogs and websites. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, all links in tweets are preserved, whether full URLs, short URLs like those produced by the likes of bit.ly, or hashtags linking to related content or Twitter searches. So, fundraisers using Twitter should hope that not only will their messages be retweeted but that they will also be embedded by supporters and other online publishers. An improvement on the original Twitter code has been created by Publitweet. Their Blackbird bookmarklet speeds up the creation of an embedded tweet, converting a tweet into HTML. It is also, I understand, better coded than the original Twitter code. Even better, Publitweet have created an additional function which brings tweets to similar levels as the embeddable videos of YouTube and Vimeo. Their Blackbird script [link removed 13/04/2013] now enables embedded tweets to be themselves embedded. The facility for people to cut and paste tweets into their own site should boost considerably the number of people quoting and using tweets. This new script has another benefit: people who will embed the tweet from your site will see that it comes from there as a source. So, all fundraisers have to do now is ensure they continue to write compelling tweets that people not only want to retweet but also quote and display on their blogs and web pages. One thing lacking at this stage though is statistics. It would be very handy to know how many people have embedded one of your tweets, and how many further embedded tweets that has generated. You want to see this in action to understand it? Fair enough. Here are some very nice comments on a recent presentation I gave to local businesses in Essex at Saint Francis Hospice. The free business seminar today with [@HowardLake](http://twitter.com/HowardLake) was brilliant [http://bit.ly/ar3kQz](http://bit.ly/ar3kQz)[Fri Apr 30 18:30:24 ](http://twitter.com/SFHUK/status/13143858029) via [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/twitter)[](http://twitter.com/SFHUK)**[St Francis Hospice](http://twitter.com/SFHUK)** SFHUK [@estherwakeman](http://twitter.com/estherwakeman) hi Esther. A great presentation today which I thoroughly enjoyed. Thanks to all at [@SFHUK](http://twitter.com/SFHUK) and of course [@howardlake](http://twitter.com/howardlake)[Fri Apr 30 19:35:46 ](http://twitter.com/scottgriffiths/status/13146663294) via [Tweetie](http://www.atebits.com)[](http://twitter.com/scottgriffiths)**[Scott Griffiths](http://twitter.com/scottgriffiths)** scottgriffiths The free business seminar today with [@HowardLake](http://twitter.com/HowardLake) was brilliant [http://bit.ly/ar3kQz](http://bit.ly/ar3kQz) (via [@SFHUK](http://twitter.com/SFHUK)) [Sat May 01 21:52:55 ](http://twitter.com/decoder_design/status/13210211618) via [Twitterrific](http://twitterrific.com)[](http://twitter.com/decoder_design)**[Decoder](http://twitter.com/decoder_design)** decoder_design ## Advertisement RT [@scottgriffiths](http://twitter.com/scottgriffiths): A great presentation today which I thoroughly enjoyed. Thanks to all at [@SFHUK](http://twitter.com/SFHUK) and of course [@howardlake](http://twitter.com/howardlake)[Tue May 04 14:14:04 ](http://twitter.com/SFHUK/status/13366610490) via [TweetDeck](http://www.tweetdeck.com)[](http://twitter.com/SFHUK)**[St Francis Hospice](http://twitter.com/SFHUK)** SFHUK   * **[50 most influential in fundraising – and on Twitter](https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/06/09/50-most-influential-fundraising-and-twitter/)**( 9 June 2010) * **[How fundraisers could use Twitter's new places feature](https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/06/15/how-fundraisers-could-use-twitter039s-new-places-feature/)**( 15 June 2010) * **[JustCoz.org lets you donate a tweet a day](https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/06/21/justcozorg-lets-you-donate-tweet-day/)**( 21 June 2010)