Ability to embed Tweets in posts

Feature
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To help drive engagement, we were thinking of curating some posts that could include embedded tweets. Any thoughts on allowing a twitter url for a tweet to be interpreted with the Twitter embed code? Or perhaps other ideas of how we could support the integration of content from Twitter?

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Do you have any examples? How’s that different from Twitter onebox?

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AFAICT it works here unless you mean something different

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Are you looking to have the tweet styled similarly to the way it looks on twitter.com itself, and sites like storify?

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This already works, provided you entered a Twitter API key in site settings, e.g.:

Just paste the URL on a line by itself, as with any other onebox:

https://twitter.com/oneraindrop/status/771842508716249088

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Cool. Going to try it now.

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The comment I received from @Urrunaga was that the photos weren’t appearing when she tried it. I guess it depends on the way the photo was uploaded to Twitter. Seems to work well. (or perhaps she didn’t grab the link to the tweet properly)

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You need to have Twitter API keys set up in your site settings for that to work.

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Can’t find where to put this … only see API keys for authentication… are they pulled from there?

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Yes they are. So enable that.

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Did that, now Tweets don’t embed at all.

I didn’t create a working application, just got far enough to generate the consumer and access keys and secrets.

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I believe it needs to be fully configured as Twitter requires that for API access.

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Yeah, that did it. Thanks so much.

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Just to help out anyone else who needs to go through this process, in order to set up the rich embeds, you’ll need to:

  • Register for a developer account with twitter - https://developer.twitter.com/
  • Once you’ve been approved (this took about a week for me) then..
  • Create a new app for your twitter developer account (you only need to complete the required fields on the form)
  • Enter the app’s Twitter Consumer Key & Twitter Consumer Secret in your Discourse site’s settings - you’ll find those fields in in admin > login
  • Refresh your browser window, then paste a tweet into a post as usual
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