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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPSA: posting from Twitter to get the tweet, not just the link--
If you remove the word "mobile" and the period that follows it from your link, you will post the actual tweet, not just the link to the tweet.
Oh, and if you post from Medium, remove the @ from the link, so the link will go to the actual article, not just the site's homepage.
tblue37
(65,490 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,668 posts)click the dropdown top right of tweet (green arrow), then click copy link to tweet (red arrow) and paste it.
tblue37
(65,490 posts)Last edited Sat Jan 5, 2019, 01:51 PM - Edit history (2)
don't see the dropdown menu option. Removing the word "mobile" is clear for even the least tech savvy.
(IOW, with no "link to tweet" option. Could be "embed tweet" is the only choice on mobile devices.)
underpants
(182,925 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)2naSalit
(86,822 posts)It's a bit annoying to have to load all those tweets and comments and then a whole bunch of hidden garbage attaches itself to my hard drive that I have to remove whenever I leave the Intewebs.
UTUSN
(70,755 posts)When I clicked on the down-carat in the tweet, it went to a menu containing "embed tweet" and clicking on that went to a window with a button, "COPY CODE" which is this (long something with no "mobile." in sight) :
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Our friend Chuck Rosenberg blew my mind today- must watch: <a href="https://t.co/JhHtS3ebQL">https://t.co/JhHtS3ebQL</a></p> Nicolle Wallace (@NicolleDWallace) <a href="
Link to tweet
?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 4, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
**********ON EDIT: Well, it suceeded in posting the open tweet here, sandwiched between lines of (code?). Good enough for me, but this Least Tech Savvy dweeb will appreciate further instructions alone the lines of the o.p.!1
tblue37
(65,490 posts)dropdown menu at all. Then if the URL has the word "mobile" in it, remove it and the period after it once you've posted the URL.
If you are not using a mobile device, the URL you copy probably will do as is. (I assume a desktop would not have "mobile" in the URL in the first place.)
UTUSN
(70,755 posts)Link to tweet
?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1081242311051272192&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.democraticunderground.com%2F100211628183
UTUSN
(70,755 posts)tblue37
(65,490 posts)tblue37
(65,490 posts)give me the long stuff you got:
Link to tweet
The way I got this version was to right click on the tweet itself and then click "copy link address."
(That works for this posted tweet because you've already removed "mobile." )
UTUSN
(70,755 posts)So now I'll follow these latest instructions ("right click" etc.) here: well, it did not give me "copy link address" --- it gave me the drop down, "Copy link to Tweet" which is this:
Link to tweet
***********ON EDIT: Well, EUREKA, gave me no long code, just the clean link (one space I'm inserting: https://twitter. com/goldengateblond/status/1081242311051272192
tblue37
(65,490 posts)tblue37
(65,490 posts)with the "mobile" problem. I use a small tablet (Kindle HD8).
UTUSN
(70,755 posts)I mean, it's great for reading long form, but for me it is HADES to just to navigate for web stuff, not to mention copying and pasting.
tblue37
(65,490 posts)it works well enough. My main complaints are that it forces Bing as the primary searchbengine, and I can't turn off the autocorrect, no matter what I do, so autocorrect turns my words into gibberish. Even when I proofread and correct, it often returns my words to gibberish before I post if I am not careful.
It just turned the "if" in the preceding sentence into %it, " and every time I write "of," it changes it to " if. " It does worse things with longer words.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,467 posts)I can't view twitter video, but I can unroll twitter threads in threadreaderapp if I can get the number at the end of the tweet link. That's been an unnecessarily convoluted process for me before.
In your post I finally noticed the little ">" at the bottom of the tweet image. That gives the link! Never noticed that thing before now.
You saved me some aggravation. Thanks!