Template:Cite tweet

@{{{user}}} ({{{date}}}). "{{{title}}}" – via Twitter.

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Use this template instead of {{cite web}} to use a tweet as a reference. Always keep the notability policies in mind when using Twitter (or other social media platforms) as a reference.

Copy a blank version to use. All parameter names must be in lowercase. Use the "|" (pipe) character between each parameter. Delete unused parameters to avoid clutter in the edit window. Some samples may include the current date. If the date is not current, then the page.

Required parameters only, in horizontal format

{{cite tweet |user= |number= |date= |title= }}

Full parameter set in horizontal format

{{cite tweet |author= (or |last= and |first=) |author-link= |user= |number= |date= |title= |script-title= |trans-title= |language= |retweet= |link= |access-date= |archive-url= |archive-date= |url-status=}}

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TemplateData for Cite tweet

A template for citing tweets posted on Twitter

Template parameters

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 (see [[WP:SPS]])	Unknown	suggested
author's article	author-link authorlink	Title of existing Nonbinary Wiki article about the author	Unknown	optional
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. Note: a tweet's timestamp is in your local timezone, and may need to be adjusted to UTC.	Unknown	required
access date	access-date accessdate	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 archiveurl	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 archivedate	Date when the original URL was archived; do not wikilink	String	optional
URL status	url-status	If set to 'live', the title displays as the live link; if set to dead, the title displays as the archive link	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
Date format	df	Valid values: dmy, dmy-all, mdy, mdy-all	Unknown	optional

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