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    6 Ways to Use Embedded Tweets to Help Your Business

    by Kristi Hines / September 16, 2013

    social media how toAre you looking for creative ways to embed tweets on your website?

    Do you want to show off your customer's kind words about your business?

    Since Twitter allows the ability to embed tweets on websites, people have discovered lots of creative ways to use them.

    In this post, I'll show you six ways to use embedded tweets to enhance your content, drive engagement and establish social proof.

    How to Embed a Tweet

    From sharing spontaneous customer testimonials to increasing traffic and promoting events, embedded tweets can capitalize on or support engagement with your brand in a number of ways.

    Before we get started, let's quickly review how to embed a tweet on your website.

    When you find a tweet you want to embed on your website, hover over that tweet and click on the More link. Then you should see an Embed Tweet option.

    embed tweet option
    Finding the Embed Tweet option on Twitter.

    When you click on Embed Tweet, you are prompted to copy the sharing code for the tweet.

    copy embed code
    Copying the embed code for a tweet.

    Then you paste the embed code in your website. If your site is on WordPress, use the HTML/Text editor. When you save or publish, you have a live, interactive tweet on your website.

    Learn How to Find Great Content to Share on Twitter https://t.co/y8GYwzlGd5 by @stevepyoung #Content

    — SocialMediaExaminer (@smexaminer) August 23, 2013

    Yes, it's that simple! Now, let's look at some ways to use embedded tweets.

    Here are some creative applications of embedded tweets:

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    #1: Build Your Reputation With Customer Testimonials

    This is one of my favorite ways to use embedded tweets. For some businesses, it's tough to get fans to write personal or product recommendations on LinkedIn, send testimonials via email or otherwise profess their respect for a brand in long form. On Twitter, however, you generally find people who will take a quick moment to share their good experiences.

    twitter testimonials
    Twitter testimonial search for "I received great service."

    Find potential testimonials by looking through mentions of your @username and a Twitter search of your business name or product. As you browse through your mentions, save the best tweets about your business by marking them as favorites.

    favoring tweets
    Testimonial tweet saved as a favorite.

    Once you find enough good mentions, add them to an existing or new testimonials page on your website, or scatter them in random places where you need social proof, like a sales page!

    #2: Back Up Your Statements

    Don't let readers of your content wonder whether you made something up. Use embeddable tweets to cite sources and quotes. For example, if I were to write that having errors on your website that affect smartphone users may hurt your rankings in mobile search, you may wonder where I got that information. But if I included this…

    Important: if your website has smartphone errors, we may change rankings for smartphone users: https://t.co/tYneIdhXVS #smx — Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) June 11, 2013

    Then, you would know how I came to that conclusion. As a writer, tweets from a reputable source help you quickly solidify content. And as a reader, they help you move from “Wait, that can't be true.” to “What should I do about this?”

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    #3: Encourage Retweets of Your Media

    Instead of just embedding a video or SlideShare presentation directly on your webpage, why not share that content on Twitter and then embed the tweet with the media in it?

    How to Unleash the Power of Content – Ideas and inspiration for creating content for #socialmedia https://t.co/3qOChqLkRS #presentation — Jeff Bullas (@jeffbullas) August 27, 2013

    This way, people not only see the content on your site, but it's also easy for them to retweet it to their audience or reply to you with a comment.

    #4: Increase Website Traffic With a Tweet Chat

    Want to host a small Twitter chat or party on your own website to increase overall site traffic or page visits? Take embedded tweets a little further and add an embedded widget.

    For example, let's say you want to have a Twitter chat with the hashtag #socialmedia. Go to Twitter and search for #socialmedia. Then, change the filtering to All tweets, click on the settings wheel icon, and select Embed this search.

    embedded search results
    Embedding search results for a hashtag.

    When you configure your widget, be sure to turn safe search mode on to keep the conversation PG.

    embedded tweet widget
    Configuring your embedded tweets widget.

    Now, just copy the code and add it to your webpage. You're all set to invite people to come have a Twitter chat on your website.

    embedded tweet widget
    Embedded tweet widget on a website.

    Note that the refresh rate on these widgets is not very speedy, so you would only want to do this with a slow chat and not something insanely popular or fast-moving.

    #5: Create Twitter Engagement for Blog Posts

    Want to get more Twitter engagement and perhaps some extra tweets for your blog content? Search Twitter for the URL of one of your blog posts.

    blog post search results
    Search results for a blog post URL.

    Change the filtering to All, and then click the settings wheel icon to embed the search. Then, embed it somewhere in your blog post.

    Tweets about “https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/embedded-twitter-posts/”

    Right below the widget, tell users how they can click on the area to compose a new tweet, add a comment about the post and then include the link so their tweet also shows up in the widget. The result? A new way for people to engage with your content and more tweets for your post!

    Go ahead and try it here. Compose a new tweet in the widget above, copy the URL to this post (https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/embedded-twitter-posts/) and paste it into the tweet with a comment!

    #6: Promote Your Event

    Whether you're marketing an upcoming event or showing off tweets from an event in progress, an embeddable tweet widget on your website does wonders for getting visitors excited.

    Tweets about “#smss13”

    See this in action in the margin of the Social Media Success Summit page!

    One Thing to Consider…

    When using tweet widgets on your website, remember that any tweet containing those items is displayed.

    While Twitter removes any profanity or sensitive information, it won't necessarily remove spam or negative responses. So you definitely want to scroll through tweets to see what people are saying before you add them to your website, and continue to evaluate embedded tweets on an ongoing basis.

    What do you think? Do you use embedded tweets and tweet widgets? How do you apply them to your website? Please share in the comments section below!

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    About the authorKristi Hines

    Kristi Hines is a freelance writer, ghostwriter, and copywriter who develops blog content, ebooks, emails, lead magnets, and website copy for marketing agencies, B2B, and SaaS.
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