Forum:Please add tweet link to posts (update: you can now embed tweets)

Question

[Ann]

Hello BioStars developers,

Would it be possible to add a twitter link to each post?

Sometimes it would be nice to quickly tweet about a question in case some-one on twitter is paying attention and knows the answer.

-Ann

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

FYI: there is https://twitter.com/BioStarQuestion

[Devon Ryan]

You might add this request to either of these threads:

Biostar on Google Summer of Code. Suggest features that you would like to see!

New features and bug fixes for Biostar to work on during Google Summer of Code

[Obi Griffith]

Something that I also would love to see and have asked about previously on the biostar google-groups list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/biostar-central/twitter/biostar-central/xyvLLNYerAA/L5YdWYaBTDYJ

Answer 1

[Istvan Albert]

The Twitter embedding feature is now live thanks to Paolo !

https://twitter.com/yokofakun/status/500718145423040512

pasting a twitter url like the one above should produce

http://t.co/M3ZZBKDMGm "a suite of programs for interacting with high-throughput sequencing data"

— Pierre Lindenbaum (@yokofakun) August 16, 2014