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  • Twitter Puts Greater Emphasis on Photos in Embedded Tweets

    Twitter has just made an update to the way embedded tweets with photos look on websites, and the goal is to “put the photo front and center, with a bigger and bold visual focus on the media.”

    Until today, embedded tweets that contained photos would appear with the actual text of the tweet on top, with the attached photo displayed under the text. Now, Twitter has moved the photos to the top and extended them to reach all the way across the tweet. Like this:

    As you can see, the focus is now on the photo itself, not the text of the tweet. This change is retroactive, meaning that all tweets that are embedded on old articles around the web sport this new look.

    The expanded look now appears for both photos in landscape and portrait orientation.

    This is the third significant update Twitter has released this week. Earlier, they launched a new opt-in alert system for emergenies and also rolled out new recommendations for who to follow on the network.

    Image via Twitter

  • Twitter Improves Embedded Tweets with Better Media Content, Faster Loading

    A little over a year ago, Twitter launched embeddable tweets. Today, they’re launching an update to that function that improves both the look and performance across the web.

    “Embedded Tweets display photos, videos, article summaries and other content shared in a Tweet, just like you see on twitter.com. You can also view retweet and favorite counts to better understand engagement, and we’ve made some tweaks to the design so that embedded Tweets are easier to read,” says Twitter.

    Now, when you embed a tweet on your site, any associated media like twitpics or YouTube videos will be better displayed below the text. It’s basically an improvement to how Twitter Cards are shown on third-party websites.

    Twitter also claims that the formatted tweets will load faster on your website, reducing the chances that a reader sees that awkward text formatting for a few seconds.

    If you want to embed a tweet, you used to have to open up the tweet in a new tab and then click the “embed tweet” option. Starting today, you’ll have to option to embed any tweet directly from your stream. Just click on the “more…” button on the bottom right of the tweet:

    This new option also applies to TweetDeck. Twitter added embeddable tweets to TweetDeck last month.