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Ask HN: using tweets from happy users on website?

5 points by lemming ↗ HN
So I'm working on a product and I'm getting lots of enthusiastic tweets. I've seen products embedding tweets as advertising on their websites, what's the etiquette around this? You can't really ask for permission, and tweets are all public anyway - is it kosher to just grab them and use them?

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sueogrady
You can hook up your twitter to your website and then have the Tweets rolling if you've retweeted them. That's an organic way of doing it.

I did it here at www.Twiddle.ie.

Just reposting Tweets would probably require permission out of courtesy, but the organic way has a better impression on site visitors.

privong
> the organic way has a better impression on site visitors.

The danger of that is when someone hijacks your hashtag or name and starts complaining.

tehwebguy
They covered that here:

> if you've retweeted them

privong
Oops, missed that. Thanks.
lemming
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into that!
gsempe
The same thing can be done by favorite them and display your favorite tweets on your website. This way you do not screw your Twitter stream
gesman
I'd just make graphic snapshots of tweets and insert them as pictures.

This way you won't depend on outside technology that could enable/disable information flow at their will.