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How to Add Tweets in WordPress to Increase Social Engagement

Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2024 8:00 am
by nihan50
Last updateJanuary 26th, 2024by Editorial Team
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Looking for a better way to add tweets to your WordPress site?

Adding tweets to your WordPress site gives you the perfect opportunity to update and inform your audience reliably, quickly and easily.

On the other hand, adding tweets to your site can help boost social media engagement by redirecting traffic from your site to your Twitter page.

As you can see, by adding tweets to your website, you end up in a win-win situation for both your social media and your website.

In this article, we are going to look at the best ways to add tweets to your WordPress site to increase engagement.

Manual or automated embedded tweets, which is better?
Twitter, now X, is one of the largest social media platforms today. Its snippet-like tweets offer a quick way to share information.

With nearly 500 million monthly active users and the use of hashtags, its novel publishing style allows information to reach many people quickly.

That's why most public figures use Twitter to share their news or views.

As a business, you can use this social media greece mobile phone number list platform in the same way to help you get more engagement, gain more traffic, increase subscribers , and inform your audience.

But you need to make sure that you do it as seamlessly as possible. You need to add tweets in a way that doesn't take away from the content on your website, but is visible enough to stand out.

That said, WordPress and Twitter both offer two default ways to manually embed tweets on your site.

The first is to embed the tweet via Twitter's default block.

On a page or post, find the default “Twitter” block. Then drag and drop it to the spot on the page where you want the tweet to appear.
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add tweet by url
Once you've placed it where you want the Tweet to appear on the page, go to Twitter and copy the URL of the Tweet you want to embed.

To do this, open the tweet in its own page so that you can easily copy the URL. Once you've copied the URL, go back to your WordPress dashboard.

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In your WordPress dashboard, paste the URL into the Twitter block text bar. When you hit “Embed,” the tweet should automatically display.

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That's it! You've just added a tweet to your website using the default Twitter block in WordPress.

It will look like the screenshot below once the embedded Twitter post is published.

embedded tweet by url