Template:Twitter Status

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Description

This is a template to generate a direct link to a Twitter status message.

Usage

{{Twitter Status|user|statusid|title|name|date|accessdate}}

The template has six parameters.

• user: The username from which the tweet was sent from.
  • https://twitter.com/example
• statusid: The unique numerical ID of the Twitter status message.
  • https://twitter.com/example/status/5678911
• title: A short summary of the tweet. If the title parameter is not specified, the page name will be used instead.
• name: (optional) The full name of the author of the tweet (if available).
• date: (optional) The creation date of the tweet.
• accessdate: (optional) The date from which the date was retrieved.

Example

The following examples demonstrate supplying numbered parameters:

Example 1

{{Twitter Status|soundaryaarajni||Soundarya Rajinikanth}} will show as:

Soundarya Rajinikanth on Twitter.

Example 2

{{Twitter Status|soundaryaarajni|139640802233155584|Soundarya Rajinikanth confirmed her next film with her father Rajinikanth}} will show as:

Soundarya Rajinikanth confirmed her next film with her father Rajinikanth on Twitter.

Example 3

The following example demonstrates using this template to build a citation similar to the [[Help:Citation Style 1|Citation Style 1]] method of referencing:

{{Twitter Status|user = soundaryaarajni|statusid = 147281349567447040|title = There is no link for the film storyline with the weekly magazine article|name = Soundarya Rajinikanth|date = 15 December 2011|accessdate = {{date}}}} will show as:

There is no link for the film storyline with the weekly magazine article Soundarya Rajinikanth on Twitter. 15 December 2011. Retrieved 15 December 2014.

External links

• How to link directly to an individual tweet from Twitter.com