- What's going on everyone?
In this video, I'm going to be showing you
a Twitter tool that you probably have not used before,
at least, I haven't, and you're gonna wanna use it now
so stay tuned.
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And that tool is called publish.
Publish.twitter.com is the url on how to get there
and what it does is it gives you a variety of ways
to embed Twitter content.
This has been out for at least since 2015 and I've never
heard of it before so we're gonna take a look at it
and see exactly how it works.
It asks you, "What would you like embed?"
Now, you can click in here and it will give you
some options that you can try.
So, you can put in a collection,
you can put in a specific tweet but you can also do that
right from the Twitter timeline, as well.
There's a little drop down arrow and you can then select
embed tweet, I wouldn't probably use publish for that.
You can embed a profile, you can embed a list,
so all of your lists of people that you've collected.
You can put a list and embed that on your website.
And you can do a Twitter handle which is what we're gonna do
and you can do a hashtag which would be great for events
and challenges and that type of thing.
So, we're gonna do a handle and we're gonna do
an embedded timeline.
So, these are your options.
So you select what type of content you want
and then you can select how you want that to be displayed.
We have Twitter buttons and if you click on that
there are several to choose from,
you can have a share and follow, a mention, hashtag,
and a message.
I'm not gonna get into buttons on this video
but you're welcome to go check those out yourself.
We've already discussed the embed tweet
and then there's the embed grid which I'm still trying
to figure out and if you know how, post in the comments
below because that looks really cool.
You can collect all of your images and make it a nice
grid for your website.
That would probably look really cool.
We put in Lawrence A. Snow and it already knows that
we want to do embedded timeline so we've done that
and this is how quick and easy it is to create
an embedded item, an embedded Twitter feed.
This is the code that you would copy and then we can get
into customizations but before we do that,
I want to show you, up until now, how I would do
how to embed your profile, your tweets that you've shared
on Twitter, on your website.
And that is to go over to the widget configurator,
which sounds very death defying, doesn't it?
That configurator.
And how to get there is to click on your little profile
icon and click on settings and privacy
and then select widgets.
And you put in your username, or it doesn't have to be
your username, it could be anyone's username,
and you could exclude replies and height and theme
and all that stuff.
Now, then you'd have to go over to the customizations
where you would add in specific parameters and change
colors and all that stuff.
With Twitter publish, here's our code, already done,
and here's how we set our customizations.
We click on set customization options
and we put in a height, which I've already put in 300.
I'm not gonna put in a width because sometimes you
just don't know how wide your sidebar is
so if you put in width that's too small, it will look
kinda narrow in your sidebar so I just would
forgo the width.
You can make it light or dark and if we make it dark
it will turn into a nice dark gray.
And we have a lovely green color if you want,
I could do purple, or you could put in a specific
hexadecimal color that matches your brand.
I don't know, I kinda like the dark with the purple.
Then we can click what language we want this displayed in
and I'm gonna stick with automatic.
I've opted out of tailoring Twitter.
Now, if you click on that question mark it's gonna take
you over to some Twitter privacy information and you
should be checking that out always, whenever anything
has to do with your privacy, always check it out.
It's always a good thing, even if it is just something
simple as this.
You're welcome to take a look at this at your leisure
and I highly recommend it.
Alright, so we've set our Twitter handle,
we've done our embedded timeline, we've set all the colors,
and now we're gonna click update so we get an updated
code with all of our changes.
We're gonna copy the code.
Now, I'm gonna put this over my WordPress website
but this would work in any website that you post
this code in, so it doesn't have to be WordPress.
But over in WordPress, I've already set up a custom
html widget, and to get the widgets, if you're not
familiar with WordPress, in the admin side of WordPress
you go to appearance and then select widgets.
And once we have our custom html, I'm gonna post
in our code and then click on save.
Once it's saved, we can go over to our website
and I've already done a demo but I'm gonna refresh
this to see our lovely dark color with our purple links.
Now, once someone arrives on your website, wow,
that really stands out doesn't it?!
This is how they can interact with your embedded tweets
on your website.
So they can click on Lawrence A. Snow and go and follow
you if they're not already following you.
You can view on Twitter, you can click on my name,
you can click on the handle up here,
and then you can click on the Instagram and it will take
you right to that post, right to the Instagram post.
Then you can also like it, so you can do that.
It will open up a little dialogue box here where you
can go and like it.
And you can scroll through all of the tweets that
that person has shared on Twitter.
So, pretty cool, right?
And it's so easy to do now, none of that widget
configurator mess.
Go right over to publish.twitter.com and start
sharing what you've been posting on Twitter
on your website to increase engagement and conversation.
So if you've used to the publish tool before
let me know in the comments below.
If not and through this video and you think you're
gonna use it, let me know, too.
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