Template:Cite tweet

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@{{{user}}} ({{{date}}}). "{{{title}}}" (Tweet) – 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 purge 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=}}

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly parameter usage report for this template.

TemplateData for Cite tweet

A template for citing tweets posted on Twitter

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
numbernumber

Numerical ID of the tweet

Numberrequired
usernameuser

Twitter account name, without the @

Stringrequired
tweettitle

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.

Stringrequired
authorauthor

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]])

Unknownsuggested
author's articleauthor-link authorlink

Title of existing Nonbinary Wiki article about the author

Unknownoptional
retweeted byretweet

The reliable source who retweeted the tweet, if the original tweeter is not anyone particularly notable. May be wikilinked.

Unknownoptional
datedate

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.

Unknownrequired
access dateaccess-date accessdate

The full date when the tweet was accessed; do not wikilink

Unknownoptional
languagelanguage

The language in which the tweet is written, if not in English.

Example
fr
Stringoptional
locationlocation

The location from which a tweet was sent.

Example
London
Stringoptional
archive URLarchive-url archiveurl

The URL of an archived copy of a web page, if or in case the URL becomes unavailable; requires 'archive-date'

Stringoptional
archive datearchive-date archivedate

Date when the original URL was archived; do not wikilink

Stringoptional
URL statusurl-status

If set to 'live', the title displays as the live link; if set to dead, the title displays as the archive link

Stringoptional
script tweetscript-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
Unknownoptional
translated tweettrans-title

An English language translation, if the tweet cited is in a foreign language; use of 'language' parameter is recommended

Unknownoptional
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.

Unknownoptional
Date formatdf

Valid values: dmy, dmy-all, mdy, mdy-all

Unknownoptional