Tweet!

Put twitter on your website with tweet!, an unobtrusive javascript plugin for jquery.

Demo

http://tweet.seaofclouds.com/ and http://seaofclouds.com/

Source

http://github.com/seaofclouds/tweet/tarball/master

Features

• small size and fast download time
• will not slow down or pause your page while tweets are loading
• display up to 100 tweets, as permitted by the twitter search api
• display tweets from a twitter search, or from your own feed
• optional verb tense matching, for human readable tweets
• optionally display your avatar
• optionally display tweets from multiple accounts!
• automatic linking of @replies to users’ twitter page
• automatic linking of URLs
• automatic linking of #hashtags, to a twitter search of all your tags
• converts <3 to a css styleable ♥ (we ♥ hearts)
• customize the style with your own stylesheet or with other jquery plugins

Usage

1. Get JQuery. In these examples, we use Google's AJAX Libraries API. http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/ http://jquery.com/

2. include jQuery and jquery.tweet.js files in your template's .

   <script language="javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.1/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script language="javascript" src="/tweet/jquery.tweet.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

3. Also in , Initialize tweet! on page load with your Username and other options

   <script type='text/javascript'> $(document).ready(function(){ $(".tweet").tweet({ join_text: "auto", avatar_size: 32, count: 3, auto_join_text_default: "we said,", auto_join_text_ed: "we", auto_join_text_ing: "we were", auto_join_text_reply: "we replied to", auto_join_text_url: "we were checking out", loading_text: "loading tweets..." }); }); </script>

4. In , include a placeholder for your tweets. They'll get loaded in via JSON. How fancy!

5. Style with our stylesheet in , or modify as you like!

Contribute

Bring your code slinging skills to Github and help us develop new features for tweet!

http://github.com/seaofclouds/tweet/

git clone git://github.com/seaofclouds/tweet.git

Report bugs at http://seaofclouds.lighthouseapp.com/projects/14179-tweet/overview

Licensed under the MIT

http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

If you like Tweet, check out Twoot! Twoot is a miniature Twitter client based on Tweet that allows you to post tweets and see what your friends are up to. Thanks, Peter Krantz!