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Originally Posted by photon
Because twitter's API specifications would require the forum server to cache the tweets to display to all the users, rather than getting the tweet info from twitter's servers every time someone views a forum page.
So rather than easily inserting a bit of code saying "when you see the [tweet] code replace it with this chunk of HTML" like I can with YouTube videos or NHL videos, instead I'd have to program a more complex plugin that would get the information once, store it in the database, and then get it from the database for every so many times it's supposed to be displayed.
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Can't add code that when saving would retrieve the tweet and add it to the message just like if the user had typed or copy/pasted it in the body of their post?