How to Copy a Tweet & Post It on Tumblr
One way to attract visitors to a website or blog is to post informative or entertaining new content frequently. If your business has a Tumblr blog, you can tap into the vast quantify of free information that Twitter provides. This is possible because Twitter gives people permission to use tweets that members post on the service. After learning how to copy those tweets, you can paste them into one of your Tumblr posts.
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Log into your Tumblr account. Tap or click the "Home" icon to view your homepage. This page contains your timeline that displays a list of tweets from people you are following.
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Tap or click anywhere on the tweet to expand it and view more information about the Tweet. Tap or click "Details" and copy the URL that appears in your browser's Address bar.
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Visit your Tumblr Dashboard page and tap or click "Link." Type a title for your Twitter link in the "Title" text box and paste the URL you copied into the "URL" text box.
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Type an optional description in the text box below the URL text box and tap or click "Create Post." Twitter creates a new post containing the Twitter link.
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- These steps demonstrate copying a tweet from your timeline, but you can copy a tweet from anywhere on Twitter. For instance, if you want to copy a tweet you have sent, tap or click the "Me" icon on your homepage and copy one of the tweets that appear in the Tweets section.
- Visit Tumblr’s Search page if you’d like to search for tweets on a given topic. After you get a list of search results, copy the URL of any tweet in the list and paste it into a Tumblr post. Doing this is a great way to discover new content and share it with your Tumblr visitors.
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After majoring in physics, Kevin Lee began writing professionally in 1989 when, as a software developer, he also created technical articles for the Johnson Space Center. Today this urban Texas cowboy continues to crank out high-quality software as well as non-technical articles covering a multitude of diverse topics ranging from gaming to current affairs.