If you’ve ever written a blog post (and c’mon … if you’re reading this, chances are that you have), you know how beneficial it can be to include photos, videos, and yes, the occasional tweet, to help reinforce your overall point.

For the first two examples, videos and photos, embedding in blog posts has always been relatively easy. But with tweets? The process is clunky, at best. Up ’til now, bloggers either had to copy and paste them or, if they wanted even more of a hassle, take screen captures of them (this method preserves the integrity of the quote/tweet perfectly), then post them as images.

As of today, those hassles are things of the past, because Twitter has introduced embeddable Tweets (and there was much rejoicing).

Including tweets, if you’ve never done it, is a great way to quote people and in a way that’s much easier to read and follow than with traditional quoting. With an “old school” quote, the writer would include, usually, a snippet of a quote, which might or might not capture the original context.

With embedding, the inclusion of tweets is neater. It’s cleaner.

From now on, including a tweet will be as easy as including a YouTube video. According to Twitter’s blog there will be, “just a snippet of code you’ll be able to use to generate simple, selectable flat-HTML tweets.” The screen capture below (irony duly noted) shows how an embedded tweet will look:

Embeddable tweets. Not tons of bells and whistles, but darned useful. Your blog posts will be better for them.