In my previous TIL I wanted to render a tweet I had made about Octopress. I thought, surely there’s a way to do this in Jekyll. With the right keyword searches on Google, I came across jekyll-twitter-plugin.

After adding jekyll-twitter-plugin to the Gemfile and _config.yml, you need to go and get some Twitter API keys. Make sure not to commit these keys to source control, I opted for the environment variable approach. With that in place, you can now add a tweet with a simple liquid tag like so:

{% twitter oembed <link to tweet> %}

Simple and elegant.