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Is there a way to display tweets clearly?

One of the reasons I stayed away from Twitter for many years (in spite of having found it very educational during the brief period I did use it) is that its interface (like that of Facebook and, I think, reddit) seems to be perversely designed to be difficult to interact with. But it could well be a case of the bad workman blaming his tools.

Be that as it may, can someone tell me if there is a way to display a tweet clearly, other than by taking a screenshot, cropping it, and uploading it, as I have done here? It is a very tedious process, and not one I want to repeat often.

This is what appears when I try to use OneBox (i.e. just post the bare URL):

That isn’t even the tweet in question, even though it is the right URL! So here is the laboriously-obtained screenshot:

tweetrv0

Hi. Dunno if this’ll be any help…

That’s funny! I did click on the little downward arrow for “embedding” the tweet, but for some reason I didn’t proceed with copying the HTML code. I had definitely tried the same thing with another tweet before this one, and gone as far as copying the HTML code that time, but for some reason I had concluded that copying the HTML code here didn’t work. Perhaps it had something to do with a photo or video? Anyway, it does work with this one. Thanks!
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I am not
exaggerating when I say I have felt more welcome, respected, and able to
do my job as an NGO observer in more professional conditions at a
prison campus in Turkey than I have at Woolwich Crown Court or the Old
Bailey Court in London. I am embarrassed for my country.
6/

— Rebecca Vincent (@rebecca_vincent) October
1, 2020
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I checked my brower history, and found the tweet that I tried to embed before.

This is the OneBox version, i.e. the result of just pasting the URL:

This is the “embedded” version (I’ve deleted the backquotes this time):

The NRA having a normal one, celebrating the impending civil war/insurrection. pic.twitter.com/5lh07CaJfT

— Daily Grail (@DailyGrail) September 22, 2020

This is what it should look like:

tweetnra

I bet I can’t embed a Twitter video:

I’ve got most of Johnson’s guidelines on here, forgive the abrupt end, either my editing skills are lacking or Johnson got suddenly bored and ran off. pic.twitter.com/z7nqnNdvg5

— Mark Steel (@mrmarksteel) September 29, 2020

Thought not.

Hey, found this…

Otherwise I’m out of ideas.