Just seeing if I can get Tweets to embed.

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The way to do it on this forum is to click on the tweet, then copy and paste its embedding code on here.

Before you do that, make sure that, "Disable HTML in this post," underneath your post, is not ticked.

You can permanently enable HTML posting by selecting the option on your Profile pages.

I'm assuming this works for everyone and not just for me.

I'm afraid I just see a load of HTML in yours. I'll try it myself:

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Oddly it worked in the preview.

It looks fine to me. Have you enabled HTML in your user Profile?

If not, go to Profile>Preferences>Always allow HTML>Yes.

Gosh that's confusing. We'll have to explain that to everyone who joins

Anyhow, at least it works now.

I think I've worked out why some tweets won't embed properly. It's because the emoticons in them can mess them up when you try to embed them.

Therefore, if one had trouble getting them to embed properly, try removing any emoticons they might contain.

An update on this conversation, the best way to embed tweets on here is to copy their URL then click on the <|> symbol in the posting toolbar on this site and paste the URL into that.

Here:

I don't know how to do it.

Click on the tweet.

Copy its URL.

On here, click on the green < l > symbol (as indicated by the arrow below.)



Paste the URL into the box that appears, and click, "Insert."

Alternatively, on the tweet itself, click on the V symbol to the right of the tweet.

Click, "Embed tweet."

Click, "Copy code."

Paste the code directly into your post on here.

The 2nd method can go wrong if the tweet contains emoticons.

This is a tweet: https://twitter.com/ZONEPHYSlCS/status/1278518630863433728

Can people try embedding it, using either of the methods described above, to see if it's only Nightie who's having trouble embedding tweets?

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