bigboxcar:

Screengrab above. “Embedded” tweet below:

Holy! I didn’t know Twitter recently made embedding tweets on blogs posts SUPER EASY NOW! Very nice: play-this.org/2011/12/13/emb…

— Karl Pearson-Cater (@bigboxcar) January 25, 2012

Very nice! Links are clickable and the author name is clickable. You can even follow the user from this embedded tweet. (Kinda overkill, but that’s okay.)

And it’s SUPER easy! See the text “Embed this Tweet” on the screenshot above? That’s from the pernalink for the tweet. Click on that link and you get the code.

I learned about it when I found this post — there are *much* clearer instructions on how to do this: “Embedding Tweets is Easier Than Ever With Latest Twitter Update”.

Note: The Tumblr Dashboard destroys the embedded tweet styles (of course), so you’ll need to view this post on my blog to see how it looks

I did a little experimenting and it looks like if you are embedding a @reply then the original tweet shows up above it. Brilliant.

thedailywhat:

Bad Business of the Day: A woman who penned an unflattering Yelp review of the Atlanta-based BBQ joint Boners received her own negative evaluation on the establishment’s Facebook page.

A message posted above the female patron’s photo claims she left her server no tip on a $40 meal, and invites other customers to harass her with expletives.

The woman in question told The Huffington Post that, conterary to Boners’ claim, she did tip — almost $10. “I did leave a tip and my review was not scathing by any means,” she said. “The response from Boners BBQ has just been astonishing to me, especially since it came from the owner of the business.”

The restaurant eventually realized that attacking customers on Facebook for bad reviews doesn’t really help their image.

“Trying to stir up the pot, we lost out lid and spilled the beans,” Boners wrote in a follow-up post. “Would like to apologize for any inappropriateness on our part.”

Unfortunately for Boners, the six new single-star reviews that have popped up on Yelp since the brouhaha began suggest they’re not quite done apologizing.

[adfreak.]

infoneer-pulse:

Google Kills Its Other Plus, and How to Bring It Back

On Wednesday, Google retired a longer-standing “plus”: the + operator, a standard bit of syntax used to force words and phrases to appear in search results. The operator was part of Google since its launch in 1997 and built into every search engine since.

Unlike their other recent closures, the removal of + was made without any public announcement. It could only be found by doing a search, which advised the user to double-quote the string from now on, making “searches” look like “awkward” “Zagat” “reviews.”

Google wouldn’t disclose exactly why they phased it out, though it seems obvious that they’re paving the way for Google+ profile searches. When Google+ launched, instead of adopting Twitter’s @reply syntax, they coined their own format for mentioning people — adding a plus to the beginning of a name — triggering the future conflict with the + operator.

The fate of the “+” symbol was clear: protect a 12-year-old convention loved by power users, or bring Google+ profile searching to the mainstream? It was doomed from the start.

» via Wired

(via laughingsquid)

Twitter Launches Twitter for Newsrooms

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