Yesterday, “Star Wars Day” for those of you not in-the-know (May the 4th Be With You), Twitter announced (thanks SocialTimes) the launch of a brilliant tool, dubbed Blackbird Pie, that allows bloggers and others to snag an html coded version of a single tweet. When you paste in the URL of the original tweet, Blackbird Pie spits a block of code back at you that, when put into your blog or site, looks like this:

As you can see, you can go right in and edit the code that it gives you (I’ve removed the nofollows from the links in my tweet, for example) but I didn’t bother correcting the cell padding. Like it says on the site, Blackbird Pie isn’t guaranteed to work on your platform, but will intentionally pick up some of your blog/site’s styling. Additionally, the timestamp isn’t real – it’s showing when I used the Blackbird Pie tool, not when the actual tweet was posted – which may or may not present future problems. Overall, easier than just taking a screenshot? What do you think?

Tags: blackbird pie, twitter

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