Genre: Instruction

It's interesting to watch the popularity of Twitter hashtag chat communities (like #uklibchat ) grow. It's also interesting to the number of different ways these chats are recorded from dumping/exporting a Twitter Search into a word or pdf doc to using tools like Storify to capture the highlights. If you organise or are thinking of organising a #chat here's one way you might want to keep a complete record of what was said and a couple of ways you can use this data. Publish archive as a spreadsheet Here's an example from the last #uklibchat (for demo purposes only, the archive isn't been updated). What you can do is select the rows that cover your chat period and paste them to a new sheet ( as I have done here ). Once you've copied you might want to sort on the Time column to get the tweets back in chronological order. At this point you have a couple of options. You can File &gt; Publish to the web generating a link for the sheet (or as I've done just File &gt; Share then entire spreadsheet). Embed tweets in your blog By adding a column with the formula ="[tweet "&M2&"]" and filling it down the entire column of your chat sheet when you paste the values generated into certain blogging tools like WordPress.com the twitter status urls are automatically embedded in the page like the one shown below (you might want to be selective about the tweets you include as too many will kill your page load time): Thank you so much for doing all of this! I do have a question... I can't get the embed formula to work in the spreadsheet. No code comes up. I just put: [tweet "&M2&"] into the head of the column and pressed enter. I am sure I am doing something wrong. I also tried it without the brackets. Can you help? I tried searching google but can't figure it out. Also, my Twitter Chats are every Tuesday night at 7pm MST. I have the Trigger set up to Capture tweets on "Day" and Time: 7-8pm MST. Will this auto capture everything during my tweet or do I need to manually get it to capture?