Template:Cite tweet

. (Tweet) – via Twitter.

A template for citing tweets posted on Twitter.

Usage

Required parameters only, in horizontal format

{{Cite tweet |user= |number= |title=}}

Full parameter set in horizontal format

{{Cite tweet |author= |user= |number= |date= |title= |script-title= |trans-title= |language= |retweet= |location= |access-date= |link= |archive-url= |archive-date= |quote=}}

Examples

{{Cite tweet |user=Pigsonthewing |number=564068436633214977 |title=This is an example tweet. Hello, Wikipedians!}}

 @Pigsonthewing. "This is an example tweet. Hello, Wikipedians!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

{{Cite tweet |author=Andy Mabbett |user=Pigsonthewing |number=564068436633214977 |title=This is an example tweet. Hello, Wikipedians!}}

Andy Mabbett [@Pigsonthewing]. "This is an example tweet. Hello, Wikipedians!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

{{Cite tweet |author=Andy Mabbett |user=Pigsonthewing |number=564068436633214977 |title=This is an example tweet. Hello, Wikipedians! |retweet=Wikimedia Foundation [Wikimedia]}}

Andy Mabbett [@Pigsonthewing]. "This is an example tweet. Hello, Wikipedians!" (Tweet). Retweeted by Wikimedia Foundation [Wikimedia] – via Twitter.

If the author has a Wikipedia article, use of author-link is recommended:

{{Cite tweet |author=Elon Musk |author-link=Elon Musk |user=elonmusk |number=743097337782763521 |title=Looks like thrust was low on 1 of 3 landing engines. High g landings v sensitive to all engines operating at max.}}

Elon Musk [@elonmusk]. "Looks like thrust was low on 1 of 3 landing engines. High g landings v sensitive to all engines operating at max." (Tweet) – via Twitter.

Example using a bunch of parameters:

{{Cite tweet |author=Andy Mabbett |user=Pigsonthewing |number=564068436633214977 |title=This is an example tweet. Hello, Wikipedians! |retweet=Wikimedia Foundation [Wikimedia]|script-title= 東京タワー |trans-title=Lorem ipsum |language=be|location=London|access-date=5 December 2017|link=no|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220227/https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-says-russian-advance-has-slowed-likely-caused-by-logistical-problems-2022-02-26/|archive-date=6 of March 2022|quote=Quote text}}

Andy Mabbett [@Pigsonthewing]. "This is an example tweet. Hello, Wikipedians!"

東京タワー

[Lorem ipsum] (Tweet) (in Belarusian). Retweeted by Wikimedia Foundation [Wikimedia]. London. Archived from the original on 6 of March 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2017 – via Twitter. Quote text

Error detection

• The parameters user, number, and title are '. If omitted or left blank, errors will be reported. For example:

  {{Cite tweet |title=I'm an incomplete citation!}}

  . "I'm an incomplete citation!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

• The tweet URL depends on user and number; if either or both are missing, the URL defaults to https://twitter.com/.

Note

Language codes known for languages that do not use a Latin script are:

• ab: Abkhazian
• am: Amharic
• ar: Arabic
• be: Belarusian
• bg: Bulgarian
• bn: Bengali
• bo: Tibetan
• bs: Bosnian
• dv: Divehi
• dz: Dzongkha
• el: Greek
• fa: Persian
• gu: Gujarati
• he: Hebrew
• hi: Hindi
• hy: Armenian
• ja: Japanese
• ka: Georgian
• kk: Kazakh
• km: Khmer
• kn: Kannada
• ko: Korean
• ku: Kurdish
• ky: Kyrgyz
• lo: Lao
• mk: Macedonian
• ml: Malayalam
• mn: Mongolian
• mr: Marathi
• my: Burmese
• ne: Nepali
• or: Odia
• ota: Ottoman Turkish
• ps: Pashto
• ru: Russian
• sd: Sindhi
• si: Sinhala
• sr: Serbian
• syc: Classical Syriac
• ta: Tamil
• te: Telugu
• tg: Tajik
• th: Thai
• ti: Tigrinya
• ug: Uyghur
• uk: Ukrainian
• ur: Urdu
• uz: Uzbek
• yi: Yiddish
• yue: Cantonese
• zh: Chinese

TemplateData

A template for citing tweets posted on Twitter

Template parameters[Edit template data]

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
number	number	Numerical ID of the tweet	Number	required
username	user	Twitter account name, without the @	String	required
tweet	title	Partial or entire content of the tweet, optionally including hashtags (#), at signs (@), and links. Note: double quote marks (") should be replaced with single quote marks (') because the entire title will display surrounded by double quotes.	String	required
author	author	Author's real name, if known. If not known, then the tweet is probably not an acceptable usage of a self-published source	Unknown	suggested
retweeted by	retweet	The reliable source who retweeted the tweet, if the original tweeter is not anyone particularly notable. May be wikilinked.	Unknown	optional
date	date	date of the tweet; do not wikilink; do not include time.	Unknown	optional
access date	access-date	The full date when the tweet was accessed; do not wikilink	Unknown	optional
language	language	The language in which the tweet is written, if not in English. Example fr	String	optional
location	location	The location from which a tweet was sent. Example London	String	optional
archive URL	archive-url	The URL of an archived copy of a web page, if or in case the URL becomes unavailable; requires 'archive-date'	String	optional
archive date	archive-date	Date when the original URL was archived; do not wikilink	String	optional
script tweet	script-title	For tweets 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, e.g. for Japanese use: ja:... Example ja:東京タワー	Unknown	optional
translated tweet	trans-title	An English language translation, if the tweet cited is in a foreign language; use of 'language' parameter is recommended	Unknown	optional
Link to Twitter article?	link	Set to "no" to not link to the Wikipedia article for Twitter. Useful for preventing overlinking when more than one tweet is cited.	Unknown	optional
Quote	quote	Relevant text quoted from the source; displays last, enclosed in quotes; must include terminating punctuation	String	optional