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David Mania's avatar

Funny how we'll keep embedding Tweets on here even with Musk doing all he can to prevent us.. I wish some dev came up with a dual solution for Tweets in Substack and a social preview for Substack in Tweets? Is Musk smarter than all the devs on Substack?

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Matvey's avatar

This is gold. Thank you <3 !

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Chris Stanley's avatar

Nicely done. Good tip

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David Loewen's avatar

figured out a way to embed a Substack link in a Tweet? :)

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Karen Cherry's avatar

haha no, but I wish! Some other writers are suggesting you make an image of your Substack URL. Not v elegant...

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Anfernee Chansamooth's avatar

I'm in the process of switching over to Substack from Beehiiv and just discovered this issue with not being able to automatically embed tweets. Thanks for the workaround!

Hopefully this silliness doesn't continue for much longer, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

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Karen Cherry's avatar

Wow, a Beehiiv refugee! I'm curious, what made you want to switch to Substack, Anfernee?

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Anfernee Chansamooth's avatar

reducing expenses. And also find the community functions of Substack are better from some of the newsletters I'm subscribed to.

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Karen Cherry's avatar

Thanks for the insights, Substack's community features are amazing!

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MindLake.co.uk (Alex)'s avatar

Thanks for this!

Very useful! 😊

I don't know why some companies make it so difficult for users - eventually someone will come up with a workaround, so it's not going to stop them.

Stop being so difficult!

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Karyn Elizabeth's avatar

Thank you so much - have been wondering how to do this!!

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Sarah Reynolds's avatar

Thank you!

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The Wiltster's avatar

Was JUST struggling with this, trying to figure out why my "simply past the relevant URL" was not working! Thanks!

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Melissa Scala's avatar

I've been doing this for my Instagram posts too because when I embed an Instagram post the top of the post links to 'author' which is an actual Instagram user - I don't know how to get around that so I do the link in screenshot trick.

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Fran Kilinski's avatar

Thanks for this, Karen!

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Ruth's avatar

THANK U

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Victoria's avatar

how do you embed youtube videos without downloading the youtube?

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Karen Cherry's avatar

Hi Tori, just paste the link to the youtube video into a new line in your post. The video will appear automatically.

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David GarcΓ­a's avatar

Great!!

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DEENA DAYALAN's avatar

Thank you, Great post.

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