How to Create Screenshots of Twitter Tweets the Easy Way

If you like to post screenshots of your or other’s Twitter tweets on your blog here’s a trick that will save you a little time. Instead of taking a screenshot, editing the image, and then uploading it to your server, all you need to do is change a few letters in the URL of the tweet.

To create the above screenshot of the one of my Twitter posts I simple changed this:

http://twitter.com/hughbriss/status/16177752718

to this:

http://chen.vc/hughbriss/status/16177752718

Thanks to Haochi Chen for this little time saver.

Here’s another somewhat more complicated option, but this one preserves any links so they are still clickable, just like the original tweet.

1. 
   hughbriss Nice to hear that @Starbucks is finally going to offer FREE WiFi. Even though I have a gold card and don’t need it. 14 Jun 2010 from TweetDeck

To create this style I used QuoteURL. You simply paste the url of a specific tweet into the text field, click save and then copy and paste the generated code into your post.