Step By Step Guide To Create And Embed Your Own Custom Timeline On Twitter
Twitter has announced that users may now customize their timelines with the new feature custom-timeline within the TweetDeck.
Here you will also find a step-by-step guide to customize and embed your Twitter timeline.
What Are Custom Timelines?
Custom timeline is a new feature on Twitter which will enable the users to collect preferred tweets and organize them. You can put them into specific categories within the social media dashboard.
Also, TweetDeck will let its users compose creative groupings which may include tweets that users wish to share with friends or embed on their blog posts probably about an incident, accident, event or anything that they want to inform or share about. Now even reporter can embed tweets to their stories. "Whether you want to collect the best Tweets about a TV show or help people find the latest information about fast-moving real-time situations, custom timelines let you give everyone a place to follow along," Brian Ellin, product manager for the Twitter platform, said.
Step-by-Step Guide To Create And Embed A Custom Timeline On Twitter
Custom timelines will soon roll out to everyone on Twitter in the next few days. Once that happens, a popup will alert you about it on your TweetDeck. Sign in to TweetDeck and you will find a "+" or "Add Column" icon on the left-hand side of the home screen. After clicking, a window will appear with many options to choose from. Hit on the very last option on the right column "Custom Timeline."
When you hit that "Create custom timeline" will appear. It is the new, blank timeline in your TweetDeck. You can simply add a description or give a name to the timeline.
All you need to now do is drag and drop preferred Tweets from your TweetDeck into the custom timeline. All the tweets on your TweetDeck will have a small directional-arrow like icon on the lower right-hand corner. By clicking on this, you can drop and drag the tweets.
Another way to add the tweet to your custom timeline is to look for "more" icon on a user's tweet. When you click on it a drop-down menu will appear. Hit on "Add to custom timeline."
Now that you have created your custom timeline, you can share or embed this timeline with your friends and more on other platforms like blogs.
How To Embed the Custom Timeline
Look for a small tab "share" to the right of your custom timeline's title. Click on it and a drop down menu will appear. You can either select "Embed timeline," "View it on twitter.com" or "Tweet about timeline." For embedding the post click "Embed timeline." A dialog box will appear where you can make desirable changes to the timeline. You can also "create widget" for your custom timeline from Twitter.
This is a cool and a lot more organized and interactive addition to Twitter. The above guide will take you through it. So, are you ready for custom timelines?