Tweets will no longer embed

[dragonflies]

Is there a fix for this @Errol? Tweets will no longer embed when you post the link, says there's no tweet there to embed when you post a link

[janea4old]

Cannot embed tweets -- this is happening for me and others.  

 @Vee said on another thread that he cannot embed tweets on the first try, but it works if he tries multiple times over and over until it works.   He said that for one post, it took him twelve tries to get one tweet to embed. 

I've tried over and over with no success at all.

Edited November 1, 2024 by janea4old

[Vee]

He, but otherwise correct!

[janea4old]

Apologies. Thankfully I was able to correct my post before the one-hour editing limit.

Edited November 1, 2024 by janea4old

[dragonflies]

I remember this happened before after they went from Twitter dot com to x dot com

[janea4old]

@Errol  I know you've been busy at Day of Days and I totally appreciate/anticipate your reporting from that event.  That does take priority!

But when you can, please see if you can fix the twitter embedding issue.  We can't post tweets from Day of Days on the D.o.D thread, and that's what I find fun, all the social media of the annual event that fans and cast post.

Edited November 3, 2024 by janea4old

[dragonflies]

@Liberty City How are you getting tweets to embed in your posts???

[Liberty City]

On every tweet, there are three dots (...) in the same line as the user name. Click it, click "Embed post," choose your display option, hit "Copy Code", come to SON, go into "Source" in the response bar, paste the source in, hit "Source" again and then "Submit Reply".

This is ultimately a Twitter issue at present, as others who use the Invision platform are experiencing the same issue on their own boards. This is not something Errol is going to be able to address at present time.

[dragonflies]

Thanks

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[janea4old]

oooh  That's how I embed instagram posts and facebook posts, using the three dots to get the embed code, then posted that code in the source screen, exactly with the specific sequence of steps that you described.
Didn't realize that works with twitter. Thanks!


Now testing with a random tweet ... yes it works!
 

Okay now testing embedding a random twitter video via the code ...
 

 

 

This is awesome.  Thank you so much @Liberty City

 

If anyone doesn't know what they meant by the source,
back in 2022 I made some screenshots of how to do it in instagram here:
https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/53469-how-to-post-twitter-or-instagram-tweetspictures/#comment-1810264

Edited November 4, 2024 by janea4old

[Errol]

Thanks, @Liberty City!

Yes, this is a Twitter/X issue. I have the same problem with WordPress when writing articles. It used to auto embed (like here on the boards), but now I have to click on the embed setting on Twitter/X just to open a separate page to get the embed code and add the HTML to my article page.

[Contessa Donatella]

And, just in case you'd like to know, the three dots have a name. Yes, you got it, an ellipsis. Also can be said "dot dot dot". 

Edited November 4, 2024 by Contessa Donatella

[Liberty City]

You're very welcome, @Errol! At least the workaround works.

[janea4old]

I noticed that when embedding a twitter video via "three-dots" method, the tweet frame appears then disappears,
so what remains on the messageboard post is the video only without the tweet frame  -- which is fine, unless you want to display the text of the tweet with its video.

Edited November 5, 2024 by janea4old

[Taoboi]

Awesomeness!!!