Using Twitter with Squarespace

Reach a wider audience by sharing content between Twitter and Squarespace.

Twitter is a social networking platform where users share news, thoughts, and other content in 280 characters or less. Connecting Twitter is a great way to encourage users to engage with you. This guide explores different ways you can use Twitter with Squarespace.

Note: Due to recent changes to Twitter's API, it's no longer possible to:

• Add new Twitter blocks or refresh the feed of existing Twitter blocks
• Connect your Twitter account to Squarespace
• Push content to Twitter

If you have a Twitter block on your site, we recommend replacing it with an Embed block. To share content to Twitter, you can manually share its URL.

Here's what you can do with this integration:

Add a social icon

To display a social icon:

1. Open the Social links panel.  
2. Add your Twitter profile link. 
3. Check Show Social Icon. 
4. Click Save. 

For more detailed steps, visit Adding social links.

After adding your Twitter link, the social icon will automatically display in most templates, but not all of them. You can also add social icons using the social links block.

Display a feed of tweets

To display a feed of recent tweets:

1. Edit a page or post, click Add Block or an insert point, then click Embed. For help, visit Adding content with blocks.
2. Go to https://publish.twitter.com/
3. Enter the URL of the content you’d like to embed. You can embed a tweet, a profile, a list, a handle, or a hashtag.
4. Scroll down to customize the display options for your content, like the size and color theme.
5. Click Copy Code to copy the code Twitter generates.
6. Return to your Embed block, click Code snippet in the block editor on a computer or tap Code in the Squarespace app, then paste the embed code manually into the text field.

To learn more about embedding collections of tweets to your site, visit Twitter’s documentation.

Share content to Twitter

To share content to Twitter, you can manually share its URL. To learn what displays when you manually share a URL, visit How content displays in social posts. When sharing products, consider using a Twitter Card.

Add Twitter Cards

Twitter Cards attach information, like images and product prices, to tweets, letting users preview content within their feeds. Squarespace Commerce sites are optimized for Twitter Cards.

Note: Twitter cards won't work if you have a password enabled. For help disabling a password, visit Removing a site-wide password and Removing a page password.

For a preview of how your card will appear, open Twitter and paste your link into the post composer. The card preview will automatically appear. You don't need to publish the post to generate the preview. 

To learn more about Twitter Cards, visit Twitter's documentation.

Collect Twitter handles

You can use the form block to collect visitors' Twitter handles.