Template:Cite tweet

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This template can be found in the Cite menu from the Visual editor

Examples

{{cite tweet |title=New research shows... |last=Smith | first = Karen |authorlink= |user=ksmith |date=2022-10-11 |url=https://twitter.com/ksmith/23356}} →Karen Smith [@ksmith] (October 11, 2022). "New research shows..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.

{{cite tweet |title=Citing tweet without url... |last=Smith | first = Karen |authorlink= |user=ksmith |date=2022-10-11 |url= }}

→Karen Smith [@ksmith] (October 11, 2022). "Citing tweet without url..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.

Parameters

Parameter	Value
title	required
trans-title
language
author	required unless last is set
last, first, author-link
user	user's twitter handle, without the @
url	required
others	Retweeted by
date	required
via	Twitter
type	Tweet
location
access-date
archive-date
archive-url
url-status

See also

• {{Tweet}} - displays a tweet

Formats a citation to a tweet using the provided information such as URL and title. Used only for sources that are not correctly described by the specific citation templates for books, journals, news sources, etc.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
URL	url URL	The URL or link where the tweet can be found. Requires schemes of the type "http://..." or maybe even the  protocol relative scheme "//..." Example "https://www.twitter.com/franksmith/status/12345678"	String	required
Tweet title	title	Tweet title, or message for short tweets.	Line	required
twitter username not including @ symbol	user username from	The name of the author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink' Example keithgeraghty	Line	required
Last name or organization	last last1 author author1 author1-last author-last surname1 author-last1 subject1 surname author-last subject	The name of the author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink'	Line	suggested
First name	first given author-first first1 given1 author-first1 author1-first	Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink'	Line	suggested
Author link	authorlink author-link subjectlink subject-link authorlink1 author-link1 author1-link subjectlink1 author1link subject-link1 subject1-link subject1link	Title of existing MEpedia article about the author; can suffix with a numeral to add additional authors	Page name	suggested
Source date	date	Full date when the tweet was sent; do not wikilink. Do not include time.	Date	required
Quote	quote	Content of tweet, enclosed in quotes; must include terminating punctuation	String	suggested
Publisher	publisher	Name of the publisher; may be wikilinked. Having both 'Publisher' and 'Website' is redundant in most cases. Default Twitter Example "Twitter"	String	optional
Location of publication	location	Geographical place of publication; usually not wikilinked; omit when the publication name includes place; alias of 'place'	String	optional
At	at	May be used instead of 'page' or 'pages' where a page number is inappropriate or insufficient	String	optional
Language	language	The language in which the source is written, if not English; use the full language name; do not use icons or templates	String	optional
Script title	script-title	For titles in languages that do not use a Latin-based alphabet (Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc). Prefix with two-character ISO639-1 language code followed by a colon. For Japanese use: |script-title=ja:...	String	optional
Translated title	trans-title trans_title	An English language title, if the source cited is in a foreign language; 'language' is recommended	String	optional
id	id	Tweet id, if url is not used	String	optional
URL access	url-access	When set to subscription, displays '(subscription required)' to indicate an online source that requires subscription. Other values are 'registration' and 'limited' Example registration	String	optional
Archive URL	archive-url archiveurl	The URL of an archived copy of a web page, if or in case the URL becomes unavailable; requires 'archive-date'	String	suggested
Archive date	archive-date archivedate	Date when the original URL was archived; do not wikilink	String	suggested
URL status	url-status deadurl urlstatus	If set to 'dead', or 'unsurped', the title display is adjusted; useful for when the URL is archived preemptively but still live Example dead, live, unfit, usurped	String	suggested
URL access date	access-date accessdate	The full date when the original URL was accessed; do not wikilink	Date	suggested
Published via	via	Name of the entity hosting the original copy of the work, if different from the publisher. This entity is committed not to alter the work. GitHub, SourceForge, CodePlex, YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and Netflix are examples of service dedicated to acting on behalf of the publisher, but Archive.org, Wikimedia Commons and grc.com have done this on certain occasions. Example "GitHub", which hosts "Visual Studio Code" on behalf of "Microsoft"	String	optional
Format	format	Format of the work referred to by 'url'; examples: PDF, DOC, XLS; do not specify HTML	String	optional
Type	type	Additional information about the media type of the source; format in sentence case	String	optional
Ref	ref	An anchor identifier; can be made the target of wikilinks to full references; special value 'harv' generates an anchor suitable for the harv template	String	optional