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Guzzista
Guzzista
Twitter
Aug 29 2011, 12:18 PM EDT | Post edited: Aug 29 2011, 12:18 PM EDT
Hello, not being a Twitter user my knowledge on the subject is limited. I want to add a newsfeed to the site from a specific Twitter. What is the correct way to add the username?

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CryingDove
CryingDove
1. RE: Twitter
Aug 29 2011, 1:18 PM EDT | Post edited: Aug 29 2011, 1:18 PM EDT
Twitter stopped offering flash widgets in February 2010 and only supplies javascript code, which Wetpaint does not support. But Splats2 has developed a way to put most javascript code on a wiki.

It is a simple process.
1. configure your Twitter widget on Twitter and then grab the code.
2. Paste the code into a text editor like Notepad and save the file with a file extension .HTML
3. Upload the html file to your wiki page as an attachment
4. Copy the URL address of the attached file
5. Put the URL address into an iFrame code
6. Put the iFrame code into the other widget tool.

See this page for the same instructions and codes

http://splats2.wetpaint.com/page/Basic+Instructions

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Guzzista
Guzzista
3. RE: Twitter
Aug 30 2011, 12:46 PM EDT | Post edited: Aug 30 2011, 12:46 PM EDT
Thanks for that ole chap, I'll give that a go as I also actually want to embed the twitter page.

What I actually need though is to pick up twitter feeds from a specific user on the website's "news" tab. It says you can pick up feeds from a specific user by adding their twitter username but I've tried adding that and nothing comes up...any ideas?

Thanks again

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CryingDove
CryingDove
4. RE: Twitter
Aug 30 2011, 4:28 PM EDT | Post edited: Aug 30 2011, 4:40 PM EDT

NEWS FEED menthod
I read that Facebook and Twitter killed off rss feeds in May, 2011.( ref: http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2011/06/23/how-to-find-the-rss-feed-for-any-twitter-user/). I am not certain that is true, because I was able to pull in a news feed via adding the username
by clicking Add News Feed, then Add From Twitter and selecting Add by User.

But here is a workaround you can try also

RSS FEED widget method

To access the RSS feed of any user, use the following link:

http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name={USERNAME}

So for example, if you want to access the RSS feed of The Next Web’s Twitter account, you would use the following link:

http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=thenextweb


Get the user name of the person you want to pick up their Twitter feeds, and use it to replace the USERNAME in the first URL listed here. Then use the URL address to paste into the RSS feed widget in the widget tool in easy edit mode.

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Guzzista
Guzzista
5. RE: Twitter
Sep 2 2011, 2:16 PM EDT | Post edited: Sep 2 2011, 2:16 PM EDT
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NEWS FEED menthod
I read that Facebook and Twitter killed off rss feeds in May, 2011.( ref: http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2011/06/23/how-to-find-the-rss-feed-for-any-twitter-user/). I am not certain that is true, because I was able to pull in a news feed via adding the username
by clicking Add News Feed, then Add From Twitter and selecting Add by User.

But here is a workaround you can try also

RSS FEED widget method

To access the RSS feed of any user, use the following link:

http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name={USERNAME}

So for example, if you want to access the RSS feed of The Next Web’s Twitter account, you would use the following link:

http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=thenextweb


Get the user name of the person you want to pick up their Twitter feeds, and use it to replace the USERNAME in the first URL listed here. Then use the URL address to paste into the RSS feed widget in the widget tool in easy edit mode.

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Cool, I'll give that a go too...

...but to add the username from Twitter in the News page on website how do you add it? In what format is it entered? Is it by simply typing in @twittername for instance...or is there another way it needs to be done...

Ta muchly

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CryingDove
CryingDove
6. RE: Twitter
Sep 2 2011, 2:28 PM EDT | Post edited: Sep 2 2011, 2:35 PM EDT
To access the RSS feed of any user, use the following link:

http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name={USERNAME}

Replace USERNAME with the username.

In the example I gave I used thenexweb as the username.

See this working example on this page on my wiki

http://splats2.wetpaint.com/page/Adding+a+Twitter+Widget

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