Elephantsquared.

Just a few minutes ago, Twitter released this new cool tool, named as Blackbird Pie. What this does is generate a static HTML tweet which you can use as you want.

So, we decided to take the janky script we’ve been using to generate static HTML tweets for posts (like the one you see here), polish it up a bit, and make it public. And if tweets really are the new quotes, this should come in handy: Blackbird Pie.

Just go to media.twitter.com/blackbird-pie/ and enter the tweet url that you want to use to generate your static HTML tweet. Moreover, the code generated there seems to be sufficiently customizable and when you paste it into your site, the tweet will pick up some of your styling. Shorter code and better timestamp are coming soon, too.

We’ll likely tweak the appearance of these tweets over time as we get feedback and bug reports – so do drop us a line at @twittermedia.

What do you think?

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