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Ask HN: using tweets from happy users on website?
So I'm working on a product and I'm getting lots of enthusiastic tweets. I've seen products embedding tweets as advertising on their websites, what's the etiquette around this? You can't really ask for permission, and tweets are all public anyway - is it kosher to just grab them and use them?
- sueogrady 13y agoYou can hook up your twitter to your website and then have the Tweets rolling if you've retweeted them. That's an organic way of doing it. I did it here at www.Twiddle.ie. Just reposting Tweets would probably require permission out of courtesy, but the organic way has a better impression on site visitors.
- privong 13y ago> the organic way has a better impression on site visitors. The danger of that is when someone hijacks your hashtag or name and starts complaining.
- lemming 13y agoThanks for the suggestion, I'll look into that!
- gsempe 13y agoThe same thing can be done by favorite them and display your favorite tweets on your website. This way you do not screw your Twitter stream
- gesman 13y agoI'd just make graphic snapshots of tweets and insert them as pictures. This way you won't depend on outside technology that could enable/disable information flow at their will.
- tehwebguy 13y agoHere is Twitter's policy and practices page for embedding tweets in a way that is allowed and looks good: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/embedded-tweets https://dev.twitter.com/docs/embedded-tweets
- lemming 13y agoThanks - although reading that page it looks more like the technical aspects than the etiquette.