The display of your timeline will, however, follow the defaults from Twitter. You can copy the code and page it into your Web site’s HTML to have the feed displayed. Once you make your selection, then just like when embedding a tweet in Figure 3 above, you are presented with a piece of code and a preview.

When I enter this URL, I’ll be prompted to select either an embedded timeline display or to add a Twitter Button.įigure 5: Embedding a Twitter Timeline or a Twitter Button For example, if I want to display my new tweets on my page, I can enter the URL to my timeline as shown in Figure 4. In this dialog, you can enter the URL for a timeline that you want displayed. On this page, you will be greeted with a dialog similar to Figure 4. In essence, any Titter URL can be embedded on a website. Just as you can embed an individual tweet, you can also embed a timeline. Displaying a Twitter Feed on Your Web Page You can simply copy and paste the highlighted HTML code, which is simply a blockquote, into your page to have the tweet displayed. The dialog also gives you a preview of what the embedded code should display. Figure 3 shows the dialog presented by Twitter. Selecting Embed Tweet will give you the HTML code you need to add to your web page to display the tweet. This will display a menu as shown in Figure 2. With the Tweet displayed, click on the down arrow in the upper right corner. This will bring up the tweet as shown in Figure 1:

The first step is to find the tweet on Twitter and then click on it. In case you aren’t aware of the process for embedding an individual tweet to your page, I’ve added the steps here. While you can find several third-party components for adding this functionality, you can also call the Twitter API and do it yourself.

While this process is great for copying one tweet at a time, it isn’t the best if you want to have a regular update of tweets posted on your site. Embedding Tweets on your web page is a simple process that can be accomplished by grabbing a snippet of code from Twitter and placing it into your HTML.

Embedded twitter feed on website