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Roberto Baldwin
Roberto Baldwin was a reporter for The Next Web in San Francisco between April 2014 and March 2015. Roberto Baldwin was a reporter for The Next Web in San Francisco between April 2014 and March 2015.
Looks like today is all about Twitter video. First Meerkat got an unexpected user boost and now Twitter is offering a new embed widget for sites.
Now Twitter hosted videos can be embedded into sites as easily as a Tweet. Under the same options menu (•••) that you would use to embed a Tweet is the option to embed the video. An HTML snippet appears which you copy and paste into your site.
The exciteding lives of cats pic.twitter.com/JVbmxuLPCA
— Roberto Baldwin (@strngwys) March 2, 2015
The embed also displays the tweet the video is part of when a user clicks or taps the Twitter logo.
Twitter says:
Video embeds are available for videos captured and uploaded through Twitter’s applications for iOS and Android as well as Twitter Amplify partners.
➤ Embed Twitter-hosted video on your website
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