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The title param is listed as required. However, what if the cited tweet has no text, just an image? I guess you could make something like "N/A" but any future automated check will likely get confused after that doesn't match the real text of the tweet. Is there a formal "None" option that's supported? If so, can it be added to the documentation? (Came up for this edit and this tweet if it matters... the kind of low-level personnel overturning that journalists won't write news stories about, so citing Twitter is legitimate in the first place.) SnowFire ( talk) 05:26, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
Do I see this right that the date automatically derived from the Tweet ID cannot be overwritten? If so, that's a problem.
Consider the tweet with this ID: 1784604761263903165
The tweeter states: I am profoundly sad to share that my father, Emeritus Professor Sir
Vincent O’Sullivan, died in Dunedin late yesterday (28 April)
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The Tweet was sent at 3:25am NZ time on 29 August. When I plug this into the reference template, it shows as being sent on 28 April, probably because at that time, it was still that date at Twitter HQ. However, the tweet's content now clashes with the date. Obviously, this is only correct when it shows as having been sent on 29 April, as the tweeter's father died on 28 April ("late yesterday (28 April)"). Can this please be fixed? I'd like the template to accept the correct date if that is what is specified through the date parameter.
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Schwede 66 06:24, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
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In light of the recent URL migration, line 61 should be changed from cite_args_t.url = 'https://twitter.com/';
to cite_args_t.url = 'https://x.com/';
UltrasonicMadness (
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19:01, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
_.---,._,' /' _.--.< /' `' /' _.---._____ \.' ___, .-'` /' \\ . /' `-. -|- | | | .-'———————`-. | .' `. | | R I P | | | ~twitter.com~ | | | | \ \\| 2006–2024 |// ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
— Preceding unsigned comment added by JPxG ( talk • contribs) 18:40, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
First of all: the blank template doesn't have a date=
param in it, which throws an error. Second of all: if you put a date before November 4, 2010, it will... literally ignore your input and claim the tweet was made on November 4, 2010. What?
jp×
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20:16, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
I took some time to test and didn't see any issues. The change is a partial revert. It will also revert to two other changes in behavior. First, unless a date format is specified, it will render the date in the format given. Second, when there is a date/number mismatch, it will still emit the error message but will display the date parameter's date. I've copied a couple examples from Template:Cite tweet/testcases (20 June 2024) below to illustrate:
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@ JPxG: if this looks good to you I can push it live this weekend, Rjjiii ( talk) 16:11, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
_if()
because it added complication without benefit. Why did you restore it?_if()
is necessary. See the module sandbox. I have no more time for this discussion today; perhaps tomorrow.date_number_url_get()
in the
~/sandbox.I can't work out why, but archive.org doesn't seem to work for tweets. Any other way to archive them? Closed Limelike Curves ( talk) 01:40, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
Hi! I'm wanting to add a tweet to the 2024 Cook Out Southern 500 about it being the 75th running, would I still be able to use the tweet from the official darlington raceway twitter? 45BearsFan ( talk) 16:03, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
(If the title's too confusing, that's my bad. Oops!) Just swapped a
Template:Cite web citation to a
Template:Cite tweet citation in
Technoblade and as seen in the two article versions in
this diff, I had to add an extra period (.
) to the title parameter to get it to render properly in the citations section.
I have confirmed that this still happens when viewing anonymously. The tweet ID in question is 1591171409484873728
. Is this the template's intended behavior, by any chance? Thanks in advance. Cheers,
u|RayDeeUx (
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talk page)
15:09, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
Noxy @ Hypixel Studios [@Noxywoxy] (November 11, 2022). "With permission from his family here are the Technoblade book(s) of condolences in full. Players on the Hypixel server were able to leave a message to be printed into the book" (Tweet). Archived from the original on February 25, 2023. Retrieved February 22, 2023 – via Twitter.Does it not appear for you? SWinxy ( talk) 23:56, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
into the book.
), which gets truncated in the version you linked (into the book" (Tweet).
). I had to work around that visual error by adding an extra period to the title
parameter as seen in
this revision (into the book." (Tweet).
). Cheers,
u|RayDeeUx (
contribs |
talk page)
17:38, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
{{cite tweet |number=1591171409484873728 |user=Noxywoxy |title=((With permission from his family here are the Technoblade book(s) of condolences in full. Players on the Hypixel server were able to leave a message to be printed into the book.)) |author=Noxy @ Hypixel Studios |date=2022-11-11 |access-date=2023-02-22}}
Is it not possible to create an automatic citation by entering the URL of the tweet? Entering all the information is a bit time-consuming. I also notice that you have to remove line breaks, otherwise it comes up with errors. TrottieTrue ( talk) 16:57, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
{{
cite tweet}}
; those tools only have support for the big four cs1|2 templates: {{
cite book}}
, {{
cite journal}}
, {{
cite news}}
, {{
cite web}}
. For years editors have been asking for support for more of the cs1|2 templates; the requests have been declined or ignored (I don't know which) so don't expect support for {{cite tweet}}
.{{cite tweet}}
template that you could copy and paste into an article. An example of such a tool is
Citer. But, if you give it a twitter url, you won't get a pretty result (it's junk) so a specialized tool is what you need to write.