Is there any chance of having a widget or whatever installed that can allow a Twitter url to be pasted in that will appear as afull tweet on the screen, the way we can with a YouTube? I've seen it done in newspaper online reports so wonder if the work's been done on Elkarte.

Somebody created a mod, but didn't test it at all.  I broke a test version of this site trying the mod out a few months ago.

To test it out again, I'll have to install a new test version using the most recent version of Elkarte (we're one version behind).

And to install it I'll have to upgrade the production forum (this one) to the latest version of Elkarte.

All doable, but I'll want to ask osmanthus to be around for it.

thanks raven

Remind me to leave town when this is happening.

wimp.

OK so how does this new function work? Or does the board parse tweet links automatically?

They are parsed automatically as long as they don't have social media tracking stuff at the end of the link.

 

I don't even use Twitter but I appreciate being able to see the tweets here rather than following the links.

thanks Raven and Os!

http://www.elkarte.net/community/index.php?topic=2937.msg31304#msg31304

 

And maybe make it understand that https:mobile.twit is a communist plot not of our doing and learn how to parse it.

I always have to remember to edit it after the fact

Haven't run into that one yet (I rarely browse on mobile). So are you saying it does this on a phone?

Code: [Select]

https://mobile.twitter.com/Shareblue/status/842491578191110146

Yep. The script works fine if you edit out the mobile. bit. It's a sneaky one as of course you don't realise it has redirected you to the mobile site till you are wondering why your post didn't work.

K. Will go edit the grumbles.

Here we go. Code: http://www.elkarte.net/community/index.php?topic=2937.msg31314#msg31314

I'll test that on local later today. If it works, we can chuck it in the file here.

Seems to be broken today.

https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/951834610417233920

That page is rendering correctly for me.  strange.

I don't see it either but I run with a lot of browser extensions, perhaps that is why.

OK I had three things messing with tweet embedding:

First of all, extensions did mess with it. For me, those were Social Disconnect Plus and AdBlocker Ultimate. Disabling Disconnect Plus and enabling ads on talkrational dot org fixed that.

In addition, my Firefox preferences have tracking protection turned on. Turning that off for talk rational dot org fixed that.

now, it works!

If anyone knows a simple way to let them run in brave that would be grand.

Looks like the problem is with Chrome. It doesn't work Incognito either, so that rules out extensions. But it embeds correctly in Edge.

It works for me in chrome both under windows and under android

If anyone knows a simple way to let them run in brave that would be grand.

Yeah, no. I use chrome for tr because of that.