Embedding Twitter into Blog Posts

Posted by Marshall on November 23, 2007 | Link It

In one of my more playful posts - I'm wondering if Twitter can be part of an actual post - for example - if anyone ever displays the this post it will give updated information on what I just did (provided I updated the Twitter feed regularly, something I'm doing more of lately)

 

 

 

Because I don't control the Template of Webmetricsguru.com, I can't put this Widget on the blog navigation - but there's nothing to stop me from putting it into any post - or for that matter - every post, if I wanted to.

Or I could just show the whole widget in my post - me and everyone else I'm following - and every time the post is displayed - the content will be partially updated due to the Widget being updated.  I tried that but it doesn't seem to work - maybe I can only do one Widget per post.

Again, I don't need template control of the blog to do this, I can just paste the code in any post I want.
But if I wanted to go one step further - what if I could have a page (or interactive post) on information that members would constantly inputting - say… a Web Standards Doc (like the ones we're writing in my Social Media Committee at the Web Analytics Association).
Could Twitter provide an interactive solution that is some way, different, perhaps, superior to a Wiki?
Let's say I have 3 members working on the "Blog" Social Media Standards, or the "Virtual Reality" Social Media Standards … would it be possible to have a page / post were people were interactively twittering their changes.
And then, I'd be needing to get more Twitter members that I'm following, and that are following me.  
I'm just wondering if Twitter can be used more creatively - perhaps .. much as it's used in interactive art displays - some are doing that kind of thing by projecting images onto buildings and allowing people who pass buy to SMS messages … or I suppose, you could Twitter them as well.
But I'm also looking for ideas or suggestions of how to make blog posts more interactive - so when they're displayed they have the most "updated information" - or, at least, they say something slightly different. 
Any ideas or suggestions?



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