Embedly Parrotfish updated to support new Twitter


Twitter launched their new web edition yesterday and Embedly has responded with an updated version of their browser plugin Parrotfish.

Parrotfish is currently available for Apple Safari and Google Chrome. They are working on releasing the update for Mozilla Firefox users.

Embedly Parrotfish extends the preview support to practically the entire web. Twitter on its own show previews from a limited number of web services.

Embedly Parrotfish updated to support new Twitter

The company said:

For a brief moment we considered retiring Parrotfish. Surely in this latest release Twitter would have implemented embeds the way they should have from the beginning. Lucky for us, it appears to be the same crippled system that caused us to create Parrotfish in the first place.