Track Jetpack-powered Twitter embeds

[niallkennedy]

Twitter supports tracking discovery and publishing tools powering the embed experience by adding a partner data attribute to embed markup. If Twitter's widgets JavaScript runs on the page and sees markup such as <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="jetpack"> or <a class="twitter-timeline" data-partner="jetpack"> it's very likely Jetpack helped a site publish an embed and Jetpack's reach could be better understood from an embed provider's perspective. Knowing reach helps prioritize future code contributions.

Sound interesting? In the tweet shortcode a new query argument would be added in the extra_args function: partner=jetpack. In twitter_timeline_shortcode the string builder would add data-partner="jetpack" in the anchor element.

The jetpack attribute value is freeform and could similarly be wpcom depending on the environment.

You can see the partner data attribute in action when generating embed HTML through TweetDeck.

[jom]

I can work on this. Do we want to distinguish between jetpack and wpcom? Is IS_WPCOM the best way to determine this?

[jeherve]

@jom Sounds like a good plan! Instead of using IS_WPCOM, another alternative would be to use a filter, so we can then modify the value on WordPress.com. This would have the added benefit of allowing site owners (imagine the owner of a multisite network for example) customize that value on their end.