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.
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. 🙂