Since quoting Twitter posts is all the rage in journalism these days, Twitter's releasing an official way to do it.

According to its Twitter Media blog, on Tuesday, the company will unveil, release, or squash a way to embed tweets on 3rd party sites with a bit of HTML. "No, really. It's very easy," the blog post explained. With "just a snippet of code, you'll be capable to use to make easy, selectable flat-HTML tweets."

It'll look like a screen-grabbed image of a tweet, except that the text in question can be tinted and copy-pasted, and the content will link to the original tweet, and to the profile of the person who originally posted it. It gives members of the media another way to be lazy.

In fact, Twitter says it was encouraged by bloggers screen-grabbing tweets and embedding them in posts as images, calling that "a bit of a hack." But, the company noticed, "the use of real tweets helps 'chunk' the part both visually and logically; we assume it makes it easier to read." As well, it indicates more of Twitter's official existence around the Web: it can be a clear next step to tie some type of data collection or analytics into embedded tweets to find how much they're being linked out.