What is it actually?

Until now if you had to quote a particular tweet, you had to take a screen shot or go by the regular copy-paste routine. So, Twitter has launched something called the ‘embeddable tweets.’ So, according to this, you can embed tweets into your website or blog conveniently without going by the tedious screen shot routine.

So, basically twitter will give you an HTML code and you just have to use it on your webpage and viola, you will have something like this on your site!

What do we think?

For starters, I think everyone is bored of the CCP and the print screen bit; it is high time something like this came up!

Apart from ease of use, I think it can act as a very good way of presenting an article. So, instead of a paragraph full of random quotations, we can have a group of tweets which is visually more appealing and the chance of a misquote goes down drastically.

Apart from this very obvious observation and advantage, this is another step towards social networks-dominated web space. Further to our previous post, we are not just restricted to a particular social media tool, but moving towards more personalization. Considering Read Write Web’s post about HP’s acquisition of Palm, most news articles hereafter could carry comments and opinions readily available on Twitter (unlike earlier where one had to get appointments and spend a while collecting quotations).

So, imagine a Nestle-isque debacle where all hate-tweets about a particular brand get listed together on different articles! Quite a disaster that could be! Because now not only do tweeple get to know of the problems with the brand, but the rest of the world has readily available information, since tweets are not just going to be listed on Twitter.

Further Thoughts

I think it is time we all deal with the fact that social media and social networking is here to stay. It will not just stay, but it will permeate into regular internet. We are looking at an interactive and social internet and it has already come.

Yes, people.. Buck up! Listen to what your customers are saying because they are no longer going to shut up, they know that their voice can be heard!

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