RSSDisplay your latest Twitter update with jQuery
UPDATE: May 2010 – There is now a new updated blog article that follows on from this article. Once you have finished reading this, please read part 2.
I’m pretty sure that it has not escaped your attention that Twitter is an invaluable tool if you want to communicate with your clients and peers. As you are spending all this time tweeting, it makes sense to display this information on you own website so you can draw in more followers on Twitter and get your voice heard.
There are quite a few tutorials available on this subject and several jQuery plugins that will display your tweets for you, all of which are very good in their individual way. However, this tutorial will show you just how easy it is to use the Twitter API tools with a tiny bit of jQuery to display your latest tweets in a fully customisable, simple and functional way.
First we will create a very basic HTML document to display our latest tweet. Then I will show you how to get the Twitter JavaScript code which will translate the returned data for us. We will be using our Twitter account, @carronmedia in the examples, please feel free to follow us.
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32 comments | Tags: Javascript, jQuery, Twitter, XHTML
Carron Media website updates
First of all, many apologies for the lack of blog posts/tutorials recently. We’ve been rather busy in the last couple of months (which is by no means a bad thing!) on various client projects and we simply haven’t had the time to keep it up to date. We have some great articles planned for the near future so please keep checking back. If you have any suggestions or requests for an article, please get in touch and we will be more than happy to help out.
Ever since we launched Carron Media in March, there have been a few little bits of our site which we a) were not happy with or b) didn’t get around too in the first place. The main part of the site that required updating was the contact form. Although the WordPress plugin we used has been around for ages and is used by millions of bloggers, it didn’t give us the flexibility we were looking for. So now we have hand coded our own forms and along with a new standard contact form, we have launched a new online get a quote form.
The second element that was in need of an update was the footer of each page. We believe the new style footer not only looks better, but is easier to use and provides a lot more information and it gives us somewhere to include our latest updates on Twitter.
We would love to here any feedback you may have about any aspect of the new features or of Carron Media as a whole, so please comment below. Also, you can follow us on Twitter.
Thanks!
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