My embedded list Timelines have stopped automatically updating and displaying new tweets since the new update. Is this intended or a bug? The time since the tweet updates and increases as time goes by, but the embedded Timeline will not show new tweets unless the page is refreshed.
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Is anybody else experiencing this?
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i am also experiencing
I want to know if this behavior is by design
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Same. I am content to wait if the streaming feature will come back shortly, but I would like to know. If it is not returning I have to scrap a project as it relies on this feature.
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Woohoo, the noborders and transparent work again! Now, about those timelines updating with new tweets. Twitter, what’s up with the updating?
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I’m facing the same problem. Any updates from Twitter? Is this behavior correct or is it a bug and is already being fixed?
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Hi and thank you for posting feedback - we appreciate it. After considering the feedback we’ve heard, changes have been made for borders and transparency so far (well spotted @Travis2375).
Auto-updating Tweets are not yet available with the new version of embedded timelines. We’d love to hear more about what this would enable for you and the people who visit your site.
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The widget is way better when it automatically updates with new tweets on the timeline. Otherwise you have to refresh the page to see new information. What fun is it reading the same tweets all day? Its not always practical to refresh the page and the widget has a much more polished and professional appearance when it automatically loads new tweets. It is almost useless without this feature. The widget has always had this functionality and only recently lost it when the new update was released.
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I run a blog community where NFL fans discuss the game, offseason, draft, etc. while reading (on the sidebar) a curated list of beat writers for their favorite team. They talk while the feed updates automatically. They’re all complaining that they now have to refresh the page instead of it auto-updating.
I understand that there are accessibility concerns with this, but leave that to us, don’t force it on us. We used to be able to do aria-polite=“rude” and it would auto refresh.
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We are going to cover the president elections in Brazil. We plan to use the timeline embed in some pages, like the presidential debate and the poll in the election’s day. So the auto-update would be awesome to us. Is it possible to add a conf to enable this feature?
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Completely agree. Without the auto-refresh functionality embedding, a timeline is mostly useless (at least for my sites/use cases).
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Hi Tweetanor,
Thanks for replying here. The primary use-case I have for streaming tweets is information enrichment. My specific usage is a news list I have been working on for a decade, and which I have distributed to thousands of people so that they have an expertly selected source for news that covers much of the globe. I, of course, have a link into the List itself (so that those who are on Twitter can follow it there), but previous Twitter executives have noted how large the effect of Twitter is … outside Twitter. Tweets on the evening news was the topical example back when, but it’s everywhere now and I cannot see how its in the corporate interest to reduce that distribution.
I am understanding if Twitter would like to adjust the interface for this – specifically making explicit configuration settings around streaming vs not (instead of the honestly clunky current implementation where embeds with a tweet count cap do not stream… and those without a cap stream). But I cannot fathom removing the feature.
Additionally, I would like to echo the performance complaints – the previous edition of the widget loaded what counts as instantly, and with little bandwidth or CPU usage. The updated version takes ~4 seconds currently. I have a quad core and 100mbit internet, so the performance issue is somewhere else. It has FOUT through the entire widget load lifecycle as well. I am very much looking forward to progress on both of those points.
Thank you for inquiring about use-cases. I hope we can see a return to streaming tweet embeds soon.
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I echo what has already been said here. The embedded timeline is absolutely useless if it cannot auto refresh. I have built several dashboards for sports watching that uses the embedded twitter with iframe to show a scoreboard with twitter feed on sports on the other side. Without the refresh, all of that is completely useless.
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Come on Twitter, don’t ghost us on this, what’s the deal? The Auto Update feature was the heart and soul of the list embed. It’s not close to being as useful without the Auto Updates. Will the Auto Update functionality be restored? Was it intentional to remove the Auto Update function?
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