50 Twitter Tools and Tutorials For Designers and Developers
Twitter appears on innumerable personal and professional websites nowadays, whether it is a simple “Follow me” badge in the header or a display of the author’s latest tweets in the sidebar. No longer a fad, Twitter is now a necessity for every website, not just for sharing your thoughts and keeping in touch with people, but also for marketing, advertising and even searching. But you may be wondering, How can I make Twitter work the way I want on my website?
Below, we present Twitter Web Designer and Developer Toolbox, API and Tutorials, a series of tutorials, links, references, libraries and plug-ins that will help you do everything you’ve always wanted to do with Twitter.
Twitter Development Links
Twitter Technology Blog
If you’re writing an application for the Twitter API or just curious about the code, tools and practices, this blog has something for you.
Twitter API Wiki home page
Download the Twitter API here, and it’s also a great reference for developers.
Twitter API Announcements – Google Groups
This website is updated only when changes to the Twitter API are released or there is a pending release.
Twitter Development Talk – Google Groups
Discussion about the development and use of the Twitter API
Follow Twitter Development via Twitter
Keep up to date with all news via Twitter.
Introduction to the Twitter API
Twitter API for Dummies
This is an easy-to-follow tutorial with several examples based on different Web technologies. It has just enough for you to start your own Twitter project.
Using the Twitter API
This is an excellent introduction to using the Twitter API. The API offers many different ways to connect to your details including XML, JSON, Atom and RSS. This tutorial uses XML, PHP and cURL.
Get Started With the Twitter API
If you’re looking to try out an API for the first time, Twitter’s is a great one to start with. Its API is simple and easy to use. The only thing to keep in mind is that Twitter limits you to 70 requests per 60-minute intervals, so remember to cache or otherwise store your results.
Getting Started with the Twitter API
Twitter’s API lets you read and write Twitter messages with minimal coding in nearly any programming language. In fact, you can use this API without doing any programming. A slightly more advanced tutorial than the previous three.
Building Your Website Around Twitter
Build Your Own Social Home!
Many of us have not only our own websites, but also Twitter, Flickr, ScrnShots and Facebook accounts, too. This tutorial brings all of these together neatly on one page.
How to Create an RSS-Enabled Micro-Blog with Twitter
Have you ever wanted to create a simple multi-person blog but didn’t want to bother setting up an entire WordPress installation? If so, this tutorial is for you. By combining Twitter Search, Atom feeds, hash-tags and PHP, you can create an RSS-enabled, micro-blog using Twitter and be up and running in less than 10 minutes.
How to Make a Unique Website for Your Twitter Updates
Twitter offer a little JavaScript widget that automatically uses the API and returns simple HTML of your recent tweets. This tutorial shows you how to design a unique website for your Twitter updates using this widget.
How to Build a Maintainable Website Using CushyCMS and Twitter
In this tutorial, you build a simple one-page website and then, in less than 5 minutes, set it up with a Twitter feed for daily updates and with CushyCMS for general content.
Send Message from a PHP Page Using the Twitter API
This is a very simple tutorial (really just a few lines of codes!) that explains how to post a message using the Twitter API from a PHP page.
How to Run Multiple Twitter Feeds on the Same Page
What if you want to display the Twitter feed of someone you admire or perhaps the feed of another author on your blog? This tutorial shows you how.
Add Twitter to Your Blog (step by step)
This is a simple but great tutorial: a “step-by-step guide to adding Twitter to your blog without it hanging your website”. Great description.
Scripting Twitter with cURL
cURL is a versatile command-line utility designed to script Web page interactions. As a little demo, this tutorial shows you how to use it to easily to overcome the shortcomings of Twitter’s API. You can also view the Perl + LWP version of this tutorial here: Scripting Twitter with Perl + LWP
PHP + Twitter + Google Calendar + SMS
This tutorial shows you how to add an event to Google Calendar by text message. It shows you how to hook up your Twitter account to Google Calendar using their APIs.
TwitterZoid PHP Script
TwitterZoid is the name of this PHP script for parsing Twitter RSS feeds. This tutorial shows you how to successfully implement this.
Twitter and AJAX Tutorials
Tweet! Unobtrusive jQuery Twitter Widget Tutorial
Tweet is an unobtrusive, fast-loading, feature-rich jQuery plug-in that lets you easily display your tweets on your website.
jQuery Plug-in for Twitter
This is a simple, unobtrusive and customizable client-side method for easily embedding a Twitter feed on a Web page. From Coda, you know it’s going to be smooth. View demo here.
PHP and Ajax with the Twitter API
This tutorial shows you how to use jQuery, PHP and a little AJAX to connect to the Twitter API and return results.
Authenticating Twitter API Calls with PHP and jQuery
In this tutorial, you are shown how to authenticate the API calls to your Twitter credentials (to be able to return your favorites).
Twitter Followers Counter Tutorial
Here, you are taught how to create your very own Twitter counter, showing how many followers you have. View demo here.
Juitter – jQuery Plug-In to Put Twitter Live on your Website
Juitter is a small and fast-loading plug-in. It not only shows tweets to or from a user, but can be filtered to show tweets containing a specific word or restrict searches by language. You can also show avatars, which makes this jQuery plug-in quite unique. View demo here.
Twitter Emulation, Using MooTools 1.2 and PHP
What most people probably don’t know is how simple it is to emulate Twitter’s functionality. Using PHP, MySQL and MooTools JavaScript, you can implement a Twitter-like status system in no time.
Sidebar, Widgets and Badges
Create a Twitter Box in Your Sidebar
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to easily create a fancy box that displays your latest Twitter rants in your sidebar, without having to turn to clunky plug-ins that bog down your blog.
How to Create Your Own Twitter WP Plug-In
In this tutorial, you will be shown how to write a simple widget to allow your readers to share your posts on their Twitter accounts.
How to Display Your Twitter Status Message in a Speech Bubble
Display your latest tweet in a nice speech bubble. It can be a pain in the neck creating this with pure CSS and images, so this tutorial will help. A nice effect.
Unobtrusive, Lazy-Loading Badge Using the Twitter API
A Resizable CSS-Based Twitter Website Badge
If you find the official Twitter badges too big and clunky, then this tutorial is for you. Display your latest tweet in a neat CSS-designed widget that resizes depending on the size of your tweet.
Custom Twitter Badge Tutorial CSS
If you’re struggling to get Twitter to suit your website, then this tutorial will show you how to customize the different elements and create your own Twitter badge. View demo here.
Building My Own Twitter Badge with RSS
In this tutorial, you will make your own Twitter badge with PHP by reading the RSS feed that Twitter provides. The default Twitter badge uses script tags that do not display when a user has JavaScript disabled. This code will render no matter what and still displays links and the names of tweeters.
Official Twitter Badges
Display your latest updates with a customized widget (or “badge”) from Twitter itself.
30+ Twitter Icons And Badges
A large collection of Twitter badges, buttons and icons, available for free download.
Building a Twitter Application
How to Build Your First Flash Twitter Mash-Up in Four Lines of Code!
Build a Twitter mash-up in four lines of code? That’s all you need, according to this tutorial, to get the latest public timeline updates from Twitter into Flash.
Twitter Client for Android
A tutorial showing how to create a Twitter client for Android (i.e. how to make XML-over-HTTP calls).
Building an Application with the Twitter API
Twitter API libraries are available for most popular programming languages, and they’re opening up new possibilities for publishing information. In this tutorial, you will use a short Python script to create tweets when the Dow Jones Industrial Average (or any stock or index you like) makes a big jump.
How to Build a Twitter Agent
In this article, you will build a useful Twitter service to track the blogosphere.
Building Your Own Twitter Client with Fluid and jQuery
Here, you will learn how to build your own Twitter client using Fluid (which contains Web apps in their own process/window), to see if it is possible to build a completely open-source, ad-free Twitter-like client on a single Web page, using only JavaScript and HTML.
Twitter Libraries of Note
TwitterScript (Actionscript)
This is an ActionScript 3.0 library for accessing Twitter’s APIs. This was originally code from Twitter, but it is being open sourced so that it can be maintained and kept current.
QTwitLib(C++)
QTwitLib is currently in a functioning stage, which allows a user to make calls to the library, which in turn makes POST/GET requests to Twitter and returns a message and status code for the action request.
java-twitter (Java)
A Java wrapper around the Twitter API.
jtwitter (Java)
JTwitter is a small library providing easy access to the Twitter API. Set and get your status, manage your network of friends, message friends, etc.
My Twitter (PHP)
This class can be used to set and retrieve a Twitter user status.
TwitterLibPHP (PHP)
An object-oriented PHP interface for the Twitter API.
PHP Twitter (PHP)
A Twitter class for PHP, forked, modified and enhanced.
PHP Twitter (PHP)
PHP Twitter is a (wrapper) class for communicating with the Twitter API.
python-twitter (Python)
A Python wrapper around the Twitter API.
twitty-twister (Python)
A twisted client for Twitter-like APIs.
Twittery (Ruby)
Twittery is a lightweight Ruby class that interfaces with Twitter’s API to make interacting with Twitter as simple as possible.
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Argux
March 2nd, 2009 5:49 amFirst one! Great post as usual!
sumonnwe
February 27th, 2010 11:39 pmyes, that’s right……
Yvo Schaap
March 2nd, 2009 6:09 amAn example of how I use the Twitter API to create a motion chart of tweet keywords and a twitter world map from over 4,000,000 tweets: Twitter Charts
Cucu Ionel
March 2nd, 2009 6:15 amGreat post. I’ll try these tools.
DKumar M.
March 2nd, 2009 6:16 amNice Round-Up!! I’m kinda new to twitter and these stuff comes in handy… Thanks Paul for your effort in putting this together & allowing others to learn from it.
DKumar M.
V@s3K
March 2nd, 2009 6:27 amI wrote simular functionality by myself about half year ago. But API is good ^_^
Dinu Dominic Manns
March 2nd, 2009 6:38 amGreat article! Exactly what I was looking for to improve my own website…
Randa Clay
March 2nd, 2009 6:38 amWow – thanks for the comprehensive list of tools! Wanted to also make sure your readers knew about our new site, My Social Buttons that has lots of Twitter icons, graphics and buttons (along with many other social media tools).
Andris
March 2nd, 2009 6:47 amNice roundup. I’ll try some of these for sure.
Robert Banh
March 2nd, 2009 6:49 amIt’s pretty easy. I used the Arc90 Twitter Client (http://lab.arc90.com/2008/06/php_twitter_api_client.php) to built my app within a few hours:
MrMilestone: http://thetwittertagproject.com/milestone.php
giles
March 2nd, 2009 7:05 amI made a few Animated tweet icons i thought i’d share…will add more when i have time.
Mei
March 2nd, 2009 7:05 amGreat article again. (but you’ve missed the ‘y’ in Paul’s blog URL!)
OverZero.it
March 2nd, 2009 7:13 amI really have to consider Twitter…
Ali
March 2nd, 2009 7:36 amI have one more desktop application “Tweetdeck.com” to add in your list. I am sure it will also be very useful.
Ali.
insic
March 2nd, 2009 7:39 amsorry about the promotion of my twitter. Maybe i just like twitter that much thats why i need a lot of friends. lol :)
Luca
March 2nd, 2009 7:44 amPockeTwit is another great app for mobile phone! ;)
@santirocco on twitter :)
tiraeth
March 2nd, 2009 8:01 amThere is a nice app for Last.fm Sidebar: Lasttweet.com I wish you mentioned it in this article.
Milan
March 2nd, 2009 8:16 amNice, shame I can’t even follow @smashingmag on Twitter! Grrrrr
Jimmy Rittenborg
March 2nd, 2009 8:17 amYou also forget alertthingy.com which gather a lot (if not all) of these social updates into one pretty simple and nice Adobe AIR app.. aside from tweetdeck, this thing also allows you to update your facebook status and follow along with whatever your friends are doing, directly from your desktop.
Enk.
March 2nd, 2009 8:35 amWow, Cool Post !
Very Usefull .. I always wanted something like that.. ;)
lunakizz
March 2nd, 2009 8:40 amAwesome, I like “How to Make a Unique Website for Your Twitter Updates” too much.
Thanks!
djdtm
March 2nd, 2009 8:45 amSpeckboy link at bottom of article is broken.
Eren Emre Kanal
March 2nd, 2009 8:48 amAlso there are 72 pixel twitter icons here:
http://www.erenemre.com/2009/02/free-24-sets-of-pixel-twitter-iconsbadges/
Brandon Hansen
March 2nd, 2009 9:41 amThanks for the link to the python twitter wrapper. Meaning to learn more about Python, and this is the perfect place to start. Twitter is the new “Hello World”.
Chris
March 2nd, 2009 9:43 amOne more suggestion for building your website around Twitter. SweetCron is a lifestreaming blog software that seems to have a lot of potential. I have not installed my copy yet, but have a few friends that are running SweetCron blogs. Thanks for the article.
Daniel
March 2nd, 2009 9:47 amYou have done a entire post on twitter without mentioning tweetmeme once. Tweetmeme gives you a way to integrate full digg like voting through twitter, using either a javascript widget or a wordpress.
http://www.tweetmeme.com/button.php
Ralph
March 2nd, 2009 9:59 amHey, thanks alot for the link to the “Multiple Twitter Feeds on the Same Page” article. I really appreciate it ;)
Joe Hickman
March 2nd, 2009 10:04 amThis is going to be my new favorite article for a while. I’m glad someone finally put all of these resources in one spot. Thanks!
David Singer
March 2nd, 2009 10:29 amTwitsrc is great as a Twitter paste bin (with syntax highlighting).
requirezero
March 2nd, 2009 10:42 amomg for god’s sake stop pumping twitter. it is a completly useless site and NO NO NO it is NOT next facebook.
sefakoc
March 2nd, 2009 11:08 amThanks a lot
Dieter Haeck
March 2nd, 2009 11:47 amTwitter is awesome and this post is pretty interesting.
Thanks!
Sarah
March 2nd, 2009 12:00 pmI don’t really get Twitter, I have to say. The hype surrounding Twitter reminds me of that which surrounded MySpace before it passed into “uncool” territory. I was hoping for an explanation in this article of why Twitter is now “more than a fad”, especially since it seems so similar to a Facebook status. Can someone explain it to me? I’m not catching on.
mienta
March 2nd, 2009 12:33 pmHow to insert twitts on your lastfm site > http://lasttweet.com/
Dainis Graveris
March 2nd, 2009 1:11 pmextremely useful post! wow!
Lachelle T.
March 2nd, 2009 2:03 pmExcellent post! I implemented one of the tutorials on my website.
To those who don’t “get” twitter or understand the purpose – look at all the information above!! Twitter has one simple function – to update others on what you’re doing and yet there’s so many different ways it can be extended and personalized onto your own website. You cannot do that with Facebook or Myspace. Sometimes the simplest things are the best things folks!
Leo
March 2nd, 2009 2:12 pm@Sarah – I agree, when people say “Twitter is now a necessity for every website” it just makes me cringe and wonder what they have been drinking. Out of about 20 clients I have spoke to none are even remotely interested in implementing twitter or using it. Like most they see no value in it and I am really hard pressed to find any myself.
My two cents, Twitter is hardly necessary or useful for the vast majority of websites and is just another social networking app that people like because it lets them talk to a theoretical audience online (ooooh look at me, I’m Internet famous!)
rYAN
March 2nd, 2009 2:14 pmIt’s a nice collection!
Here’s more essential twitter tools may be useful for you.
http://fishintheriver.com/2009/02/27/50-essential-twitter-tools-for-bloggers/
ken
March 2nd, 2009 4:54 pmi’m so sick of hearing about twitter…
Spank McMonkey
March 2nd, 2009 5:41 pmI also disagree on the “necessity” of Twitter.
Jacob
March 2nd, 2009 5:58 pmYou forgot to mention http://www.tweetizen.com -
New Standard
March 2nd, 2009 7:05 pmIm a bit sick of hearing about twitter as well, however I still use it. It’s a very useful tool and is capable of so many things. However, as this post illustrates, it could use some upgrades. Excellent post!
requirezero
March 2nd, 2009 9:05 pmas i posted before twitter is just a big empty baloon. It is not next facebook. I read an article about twitter users. More than %80 of are minors (below 18 years old). Mostly using twitter for “oohhh look at lindsay hair, hey here is new britney shoes”… After reading this article any site with “follow us on twitter” icon makes me think it is another kiddy site
gr8pixel
March 2nd, 2009 10:03 pmSupeeeerrrrrrrrbbb!! :D
zeroone
March 2nd, 2009 10:20 pmYep, another social nework.
Can anyone explain me usefulness?
I just don’t get it.
How useful can be “I’m drinking coffee.” or “I’m writing blog right now.”.
From my point of view it’s another time waster.
Excuse me, …. beep beep beep
Tim
March 2nd, 2009 11:11 pmGreat post and here is an open source .net twitter app : http://www.codeplex.com/jata
W3Planting
March 3rd, 2009 12:22 amnice collection as usual !
zeroone You are right(but not 100%), there are a ton of people who providing useful information instantly via twitter.
its up to one how smartly he/she uses it :)
Ryan
March 3rd, 2009 3:53 amIts amazing how much resources there is directed towards twitter. Fascinating list. Very very good reading. Thanks guys.
Ivan
March 3rd, 2009 3:59 amGreat post!
I miss a lot of Rails/Twitter tutorials except the last ruby one.
Tom Bradshaw
March 3rd, 2009 5:27 amI think a twitter box can add a really interesting element to a website, it’s something I’ve been meaning to add to my own site for a while now.
Den
March 3rd, 2009 6:09 amJSP (and/or Coldfusion) components for Twitter: Twitter taglib
theCount
March 3rd, 2009 6:36 amgot to admit I am late with all this twitter business this post will get me on track with twittering – thanks SM.
leo
March 3rd, 2009 3:42 pm@W3Planting –
Saying “its up to one how smartly he/she uses it :)” is of course rubbish, the real question is “Can twitter bring any value to my client or their site?” in most cases the answer will be no, no it will not. If the answer is yes then by all means you can go down the rabbit hole of “How can we leverage this technology to accomplish our goals” but to just simply go all “OMG” over twitter and try to apply it to everything is rather amateur.
@AronStevenson
March 3rd, 2009 7:10 pmThanks for the list Paul, it’s very useful for a novice like me….
nasip
March 3rd, 2009 7:11 pmStill not convinced about the whole twitter thing!
Dan
March 4th, 2009 2:26 amI’d love to see an article like this for last.fm, unless someone has some similar links?
Bryan Povlinski
March 4th, 2009 7:26 amThis is a really great post. It’s pretty impressive how quickly the Twitter API has taken off with so many new applications to use. Thanks for getting us up to date on this
Brian Cray
March 4th, 2009 7:45 amHere’s an example use of Twitter’s location-based search API: Nearby Tweets
Scott
March 4th, 2009 9:03 amWhat about tools like ours, MicroPlaza – a which delivers filtered news based on the people you follow. For example you can create a design ‘tribe’ on the platform and add in all your design related contacts to get the aggregated view of what they’re sharing.
Mark
March 4th, 2009 10:13 amGreat Post! Keep them coming!
Matthew Heidenreich
March 4th, 2009 11:44 amNice list…. heres a tutorial in Photoshop on making a little box for your twitter feed twitter box tutorial
Pat Arlt
March 4th, 2009 3:14 pmHonored to be mentioned in a Smashing Magazine article. Hopefully I’ll have a new version of my tutorial up soon but for the mean time I’ll be looking into some of these tools and hacks
Raj
March 4th, 2009 4:18 pmCheck it out the Twitter interface at http://fonet.mobi which is a mobile web site and can be accessed from any phone.
Greg Fletcher
March 5th, 2009 5:53 pmIs it possible to protect my Twitter updates and also publish them to a password protected website? I want to get my boss using twitter but want to keep the public from seeing the updates, then post a feed on our intranet. Ideas?
Rory Martin
March 6th, 2009 1:06 amThanks for article, ashamed to say I didn’t really know much about this TWITTER craze but this indepth tutorial has filled in the gaps, cheers.
I’ll begin adding the feature to my websites from now on.
ZyZZZyZ
March 10th, 2009 5:06 pmReally perfect article Paul … & I “twitted it ” !!
Here : http://twitter.com/ZyZZZyZ
Many thanx for this great job !
ZyZZZyZ
John Brady
March 11th, 2009 7:28 pmGreat content and as a newbie to this whole business every little bit helps.
undauntedTwit
March 15th, 2009 6:17 pmextremely useful thanks. although ive never been a fan of fb i’ve become hooked on twitter. something about the microblogging, realtime feed that appeals to some. twitter does especially well with all the application / tools support through their api. kudos for them for opening it up so much. follow me if you want (http://twitter.com/undauntedTwit) and have a good life!
Cindy
March 15th, 2009 6:36 pmA twitter api of course provides the same functionality that is provided by http://www.twitter.com. Some sites have been using the API to mimic the twitter web content, yet build upon it. I’ve seen several instances of course. Many tools provide grouping and customized searching or a new site I found, Twaitter.com provides a fairly in depth scheduling platform. The use of twitter’s api is endless.
Cindy
chocksy
March 18th, 2009 10:22 amI did an update to the followers counter for twitter if you are interested you can visit it :) It’s for people with more than 100 visitors per hour :))
Tina
March 19th, 2009 5:46 amSomeone just sent me this link and I have to say: Twitter is NOT a necessity.
When people tell me, “you just don’t get it” about Twitter, I want to smack them. Uh, YOU don’t get that YOU are being had. You’re drinking the Kool-Aid without stopping to think that it’s just another means to suck time from your life. Marketing 101: always present your widget as a NEED. The Twitter marketers have successfully done just that.
Uddin
March 29th, 2009 1:50 pmHI,
Great article. I love it. I am using your site as a reference to my blog about Twitter…
Thanks for putting out such a wonderful information. You guys rock!!
Jonathan Nelson
April 3rd, 2009 6:40 amgreat list you got here smashing magazine. i thought i’d chime in and let you know about my new Twitter application i just launched called TwitterMass. you can test it out here http://twittermass.com. people are calling it the twitter networking tool on cruise control.
andres
April 23rd, 2009 4:16 amPuede interesarte
andres
April 23rd, 2009 4:18 amFavor enviar datos a andres_henon@hotmail.com
peter laptop deals
April 23rd, 2009 1:01 pmVery helpful. Seriously. It is like a gateway to twitter api.
I guess that is why it is a digg frontpage.
Teo Graca
May 9th, 2009 3:20 pmIt’s great to find all this data in one place. Good stuff!
jane
May 27th, 2009 11:13 amhttp://textsnip.com is a good way to paste a large block of text into a tweet. no password, no sign up
Paul
June 22nd, 2009 12:32 pmGreat thanks for that collection of useful links. Im web developer, so bookmark that article for my future projects Link
Ginny
June 26th, 2009 12:57 pmThis looks like something that is truly useful to us new Twitters. Thank you!
ron
August 13th, 2009 10:26 amI’m looking for a php script. where i can load my twitterupdates in flash with AS2. Anyone?
Ismael
February 9th, 2010 12:12 pmHey Ron, I’m looking for an API that load my twitterupdates too in flash with AS2, Did they give to you some solution? Thanks dude!
jQuery
September 17th, 2009 8:57 pmI find jQuery Twitter API plugin very useful while developoing my client’s Twitter badges.
You can find it here http://jquery-howto.blogspot.com/2009/04/jquery-twitter-api-plugin.html
Rolling Tweets
June 17th, 2010 7:23 amHere is a site that is build using jQuery. http://rollingtweets.com/ Almost feels like browsing a book of tweets. The link preview options is awesome (with all the bitly’s and tiny’s in the tweets)
Trevor
September 26th, 2009 8:49 amI am using the Twitter API to build a great application which will aid shopping by linking social netrworking recommendations to websites which sell the recommended goods.
What I have done so far is called fullbe.com I would appreciate any comments.
ptoone
November 28th, 2009 3:32 pmGreat post, thank you.
Andreas
December 22nd, 2009 6:14 amhi, there
very cool collection of tools! Maybe some of you twitter coding pros can help me out with this “problem” I have?
I need some kind of twitter widget which displays my last 3 or so tweets in a kind of slideshow. All of the widgets I found so far the display the tweets in a list.
I am unfortunatly no php or javascript coder so I don’t have any idea how to change the li-tag list of the twitter api into divs or make some kind of horizontal scrolling thing.
So If you know some copy & paste solution for this .. you would do me a great favor.
Nice X-Mas and kind regards from Vienna
Andreas.
Murtaza Imran
January 3rd, 2010 3:08 amOne of the BEST lists on smashing magazine!! amazing resources!
Murtaza Imran
January 3rd, 2010 3:15 amcan anyone also share some good tutorials on making the same thing in flash as2 or as3? there are API’s available but there are no tutorials for it :(
Alexander Russo
January 21st, 2010 10:47 amWill someone please explain to me the twitter widget that is used on the lady gaga website (ladygaga.com). You can basically tweet what you think of her bad romance video or anything on her website. On top of the widget it says “fan tweet – share your thoughts on this video”, I want to add that feature to my website but I can’t seem to find how her developers did it.
Will someone please help me?
Thanks
AR
Andhi
January 26th, 2010 10:27 pmcooll thanks.. also check this 400+ funny BLUEBIRD TWITTER DESIGN.. LOLZ..
http://breakedition.com/2010/01/400-twitter-bird-design-and-source-really-awesome
Simon
January 29th, 2010 3:55 pmGreat list, so many new ideas. I also like TwittLoad.com, for posting on Twitter with images attached
Elizabeth
February 5th, 2010 10:24 amThank you so much. I’ve bookmarked this article for future reference. I’ve just launched a new business and needed some tips on how to make our Twitter presence better. This helped!
PJ
February 5th, 2010 11:01 amI would love to list the latest tweets from my tweet account on my site, but I don’t want my site to hang, when twitter is busy or gets another DOS attack!
Anyone recommend a great Twitter widget (html etc) that makes sure your site loads, even if content from Twitter does not.
Twitter Hangs = My Site down = not good.
Thanks! – PJ
Jürgen
March 26th, 2010 9:41 amHey, Guys,
I created a non commercial twitter service which is more like a proof of concept. Now that it’s in the wild I would like to discuss it here.
You can find it at http://twittlot.com
It gives you the ability to twitter long tweets (up to 1000 characters)
Regards
Juergen
PS If this is the wrong spot for it, maybe you could name me one?
Jürgen
March 26th, 2010 9:42 amOh, before I forget. This is a GREAT list and I stored it in my personal bookmarks
Maximo Rodriguez
April 1st, 2010 5:00 amAn emerging great Twitter Mashup is http://www.mysocialarchive.com is your social web history, where you’ll be looking for your old tweets, hashtags that you commented, and links you recommended
geschenk
April 4th, 2010 9:12 amTwitter is really Important to build a great website with a lot of traffic so thx a lot for this great article.
Globinch
April 28th, 2010 6:34 pmWrite your own Twitter widget in (Recent Tweets) 3 steps using twitter API.
http://www.globinch.com/2010/04/07/write-your-own-twitter-widget-in-3-steps-recent-tweets-using-twitter-api/
Jonas Lundman
June 8th, 2010 4:51 amThanks for a complete and great work about how to use Twitter on your site. På svenska: En kompletta sida om att utveckla och använda Twitter på sin hemsida eller gene webbplats. (For scandinavian users) / lundman.se
Tahsin Hasan
July 7th, 2010 8:11 pmHello,
see a twitter codeigniter library on http://newdailyblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/tweetsigniter-documentation.html. Thanks.
Pixelbox Design
July 12th, 2010 12:49 amExcellent Article, Added to favs, keep up the good work.
Most Viral Media
August 30th, 2010 6:37 pmSo, i have a question..
I have seen lot of people using their brand name to be shown as VIA name..
Do you know how to get that ??
Ex.. below all twitter messages in twitter it says, “via” foursquare/ web / tweetmeme/ etc.tc..
Do u know how to get our brand name instead of those names ??