Twitter testing embedded tweets to show which publications have used your tweets

Even while you could embed any tweet onto your website, the original tweet producer had no way of ever knowing where the tweets were being posted. Trying out a remedy for this, Twitter seems to be silently testing the “Embedded Tweets” feature that will inform you where the tweet has been featured.

Say, your tweet has been featured in an article. You will probably have no way of knowing it unless you fed in your handle or tweet in a search engine. Thanks to the Embedded Tweet feature, you will simply need to view the tweet to know which publications it was featured in.

View where your tweets were embedded

This quiet feature was first noted by security expert Mikko Hypponen, who saw that Twitter had mentioned that a particular tweet of his had been embedded in publications like Gawker and Crowdmap. The embedding was only visible once you clicked on the time stamp and not when you had opened the tweet drawer. You could click through to the articles right from within the tweet.

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Interestingly, Twitter seemed to have rolled the feature back, not too long after it introduced it. While it seems like it’s just a test-only feature as of now, it could be possible that Twitter will roll it out eventually. It could want to test this feature with bigger publications and celebrities at first.

Over the weekend, Twitter had also rolled out a translator service for tweets in foreign languages using Bing’s translator. When you now see tweets in a language not known to you, all you need to do is click on the time stamp of the tweet to check out the translate option. Thankfully, unlike the embedded tweets option, the translate feature has not been rolled back yet.