What I want to do is to have the author copy/paste a twitter tweet link like so:
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/811635259162791936
And then have my theme embed the tweet status content and link it to the original tweet instead of the twitter widget auto-embedded by wordpress.
But I can't seem to find a way to have my theme override or prevent the auto-embed from wordpress.
I also tried using css to style the embedded object so that it looked the way I wanted it to. It gets initially styled as expected and then after about half a second my styled tweet text gets replaced by the default twitter widget.