FossyTweetsTalk

About FossyTweets

MichaelCorbett says: My aim with the FossyTweets page was to allow community members to add some code that would excerpt their last 5 tweets onto this page. It would allow community members to come to this page and see all the tweets in overview with a view for them to decide who they wanted to "follow" on twitter. Unfortunately the code snippet that I copied to do this only allows for one person's tweets to be shown on a page and so it was not possible to have a "overview of tweets" page. What I have done for now is to make the page list the twitter user "nextwiki" but if there is anyone with the java/twitter know-how to correct my simple javascript snippet (see below) please let me know and I'll try to ressurect the concept.

Code Snippet I used

---++ Your name here
%TWISTY{
showlink="Tweet to me!"
hidelink="Twut up"
remember="on"
}%
<div id="twitter_div">
<ul id="twitter_update_list"></ul>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/YOUR USER NAME HERE.json?callback=twitterCallback2&amp;count=5"></script>

Why not [[http://twitter.com/YOUR USER NAME HERE][follow me]] on Twitter?
%ENDTWISTY%

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The referenced blogger.js script hardcodes the ID of the ul element to which the output will be written. A modified version of the callback can be written so the ID of the ul element to be customized. I've written a prototype but I seem to be running up against this bug. -- IsaacLin - 02 Dec 2008 - 03:04

I have attached my Javascript file to FossyTweetsFetchStatus and created a temporary sample page, FossyTweets that makes use of it. Note that the way the bug I seem to be encountering manifests itself, the page seems to work the very first time it is loaded, and then subsequent loads will fail. This seems to be due to a caching problem by Twitter. (Technical details: The initial response seems to be cached with the callback instead of just the JSON data structure, so the subsequent response has nested callbacks.) -- IsaacLin - 03 Dec 2008 - 15:06

The bug report says the bug has been resolved, and it seems to work, so I've replaced the FossyTweets page with the implementation from the sandbox version. Note I intentionally did not put a table of contents on the page: with all of the sections closed, I thought the headings were already easily skimmed, and the table of contents would look redundant. I realize that with some sections left open, a table of contents would be more useful. I'm not sure which is the more likely use case: I believe I would tend to close a section after reading it, as this reduces the amount of scrolling I need to do on the page. -- IsaacLin - 04 Dec 2008 - 00:42

Isaac, thanks very much! There’s a virtual beer in this for you. -- MichaelCorbett - 4 December 2008 - 10:29

This wiki app seems to be out of order. I can't see any tweet updates at all. Anybody able to fix?

-- MichaelDaum - 11 Nov 2010

TwitterBuzz seems to do just fine.

-- MichaelDaum - 11 Nov 2010

Twitter is no more so I'll remove any links to it from foswiki.org.

-- MichaelDaum - 18 Sep 2023

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