How to Embed Tweets in Your Website

In our article, Twitter Redesign, we mention the ability to embed a tweet onto your website. To better understand how it works, think of it as incorporating the functionality of a tweet on your website. To embed a tweet, follow these instructions:

To render a tweet using oEmbed, the embedding site must:
1. Obtain an URL to or ID number of the tweet it wants to render.
2. Make a request to the get statuses/oembed endpoint, passing the Tweet URL or ID as a query parameter.
3. Render the html property of the response, as well as a <script> element pointing to //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js, if needed.

There are other ways to embed a tweet onto your website using codes that you might find to be easier. To get full directions on the various ways to embed a tweet, visit the developer’s site here.