{"id":403,"date":"2020-04-19T12:57:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T17:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/?p=403"},"modified":"2020-04-19T12:57:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T17:57:39","slug":"twitter-embed-alerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/2020\/04\/twitter-embed-alerts\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter embed alerts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Twitter allows <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/help.twitter.com\/en\/using-twitter\/how-to-embed-a-tweet\" target=\"_blank\">embedding<\/a> tweets on external websites:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"325\" data-attachment-id=\"404\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/2020\/04\/twitter-embed-alerts\/twitter-embed-menu_\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/twitter-embed.menu_.png?fit=979%2C549&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"979,549\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"twitter-embed.menu_\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/twitter-embed.menu_.png?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/twitter-embed.menu_.png?fit=580%2C325&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/twitter-embed.menu_.png?resize=580%2C325&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Embed Tweet menu option\" class=\"wp-image-404\"\/><figcaption>&#8220;Embed Tweet&#8221; menu option on a tweet by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shawnmicallef\/status\/1251259587317153794\" target=\"_blank\">Shawn &#8220;#BlizzardsNow&#8221; Micallef<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is great for adding content to <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/6724098\/empty-tourist-sites-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">news articles<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/insider\/2016\/02\/08\/twitters-new-pop-up-tweets-are-awful-and-people-arent-happy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">websites<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narcity.com\/ca\/on\/toronto\/news\/toronto-police-issued-over-6000-parking-tickets-last-month-and-heres-what-torontonians-have-to-say-about-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blogs<\/a>, etc. Twitter also ensures that the tweets are displayed using your current name, photo, and the latest Twitter design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, there are no alerts for when your tweets are embedded, and that&#8217;s rather unfortunate because I would like to know when someone is using my tweets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of April 2020, the embed HTML code is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&lt;blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n    &lt;p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n        Looking forward to transitioning into my weekend tweets shortly. There will be a brief service delay while we switch sensibilities.\n    &lt;\/p>\n    &amp;mdash; Three Geese Radius (@shawnmicallef) &lt;a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shawnmicallef\/status\/1251259587317153794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2020&lt;\/a>\n&lt;\/blockquote>\n&lt;script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">&lt;\/script><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>So, one solution is to create a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/alerts\" target=\"_blank\">Google Alert<\/a> for: <span style=\"color:#222edd;background-color:#dfdfdf;font-family:Times New  Roman;padding:4px;\" class=\"has-inline-color\">twitter.com &#8220;@{{username}}&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"399\" data-attachment-id=\"406\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/2020\/04\/twitter-embed-alerts\/google-alerts-twitter\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/google-alerts-twitter.png?fit=851%2C585&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"851,585\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"google-alerts-twitter\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/google-alerts-twitter.png?fit=300%2C206&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/google-alerts-twitter.png?fit=580%2C399&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/google-alerts-twitter.png?resize=580%2C399&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-406\"\/><figcaption>Google Alert for detecting embedded tweets on the internets<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This will not detect every instance of an embedded tweet, but if Google finds it on a site they&#8217;re crawling, they will send you an email about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to get alerts about embedded tweets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-90","category-twitter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XQq-6v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}