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Twitter Makes Tweets Embeddable with Blackbird Pie

Ever wished you could copy a tweet outside of the Twitter web interface, but keep the context (ie not turn it into just unlinked text or a static image)?  Well, Twitter thinks you’d like that choice, so they’ve revealed Blackbird Pie, a simple tool to turn any public tweet into an embeddable file, like a YouTube clip or Scribd document.  Here’s an example (with a message worth reading):

You are not Facebook’s customer. You are the product that they sell to their real customers – advertisers. Forget this at your peril.less than a minute ago via web


Blackbird Pie is clearly still under development (the embed code is insanely long), but it’s a useful tool and its further development will provide a way of keeping the context of tweets more visible and linkable. 🙂

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