#1227

I’ve created an embedded timeline, and it just doesn’t return the correct information. The test site is:

http://lmsctest.directlearn.co.uk/?page_id=709

The timeline searches on a hashtag, #lmscsite. The embedded timeline returns only three tweets (at the time of writing - it may have changed by the time you see it), and that’s it. However, if you look lower down, in the left hand column, there’s a section called “Site reports - use #lmscsite” - this returns six (actually, it returns a lot more, the display is just set to show 6 max). The widget showing in the left hand column is not from Twitter, it’s a third party developer’s (for Wordpress) and using, I assume, the API which is about to be discontinued. Basically, the embedded timeline doesn’t return all the tweets, whereas the third party solution does - but presumably no longer will after the API is discontinued.

Maybe part of the problem is that the embedded timeline possibly only shows the top tweets, not all the tweets? Doing a seach directly via twitter and selecting all tweets does return more - though it still loses some of the tweets that the third party solution shows.

I don’t really understand why the Twitter embedded timeline doesn’t return the same results as the third party solution - i.e. all the tweets using a given hashtag. Returning some, but not all, results just doesn’t seem to make sense to me.

#1228

It appears like it’s not possible to embed the same widget more than once on a page. Usually this happens due to user error (they set something to appear site-wide, then specifically include it on one page as well), but it would be nice if they all worked rather than only whichever one is last in the source order.

A workaround is to generate an identical widget to get a new widget ID.

#1229

Thanks, Kevin, but I think maybe you misunderstood my email (if you are replying to mine - if not, my apologies!). On that example page, there are two widgets. One is the official twitter embedded timeline widget. That is the one on the main part of the page. However, on the left navigation bar, there is an entirely different ‘unofficial’ widget, developed by a third party specifically for Wordpress. They both search for the same thing, the hashtag #lmscsite. But the official twitter widget produces far fewer results than the unofficial third party widget, and when you click on ‘load more’ it says that ‘there are no more tweets in this stream’ - whereas, in fact, there plainly are, if you compare it with the different widget, searching on the same terms, in the left hand navigation bar. And therefore, to my mind, the official twitter widget is simply wrong in what it returns. Can you

#1230

Sorry, yup, not replying to you…just a new issue. :slight_smile:

FWIW though, I seem to recall that the official twitter widget limits search results to whatever it defines as “top tweets”.

#1231

Note that this is happening to me on sites I work on…not in reply to anything else in this thread. :slight_smile:

#1232

It seems recently that the option to specify domains is gone from the widget settings. Essentially this has broken everyone’s widget embedding. A few people have said that there is a way to manually edit the javascript to bypass this. Is there a fix coming or can you please clarify how we can give access to our domains now?

#1233

Hi! I ahve two questions:

  1. How can I exclude retweets from my embedded timeline?
  2. Can I set the height of the widget using CSS or JS?

Thx!

#1234

Yes, kevin, I think you’re right. It does seem to restrict to top tweets, for some reason. But at least when you do a search within twitter (rather than using this widget) you can then specify all tweets. But as far as I can see, you can’t with the widget. Which is pretty crap really.

I do think that there is also another issue, demonstrated on my test site, that it says there are no more tweets in the stream when there clearly are.

It seems to me an extremely poor implementation, compared with the third party solutions, some of which at least use jquery.tweet.js - which sadly, according to http://tweet.seaofclouds.com/, will stop working sometime in 2013 because of the Twitter API changes.

#1235

Hello,
I have the following questions:

  1. How many embedded timeline widgets can be created per user?
  2. What is the refresh interval for embedded timeline widgets?

I appreciate your support.

#1236

+1 for:

  • limiting the number of tweets pulled in
  • removing the user icon
#1237

Can you point out exactly how to get the timeline widget to display only the latest tweet?

#1238

Did either of you figure out how to show only the last tweet?

#1239

Did you ever figure out how to do this?

#1240

Slap it in a div & style the div. Then turn off the header & footer & make the background transparent.

#1241

Did you ever figure out how to do this?

#1242

Should Twitter timelines show tweets in realtime ? When we use the timeline widget, we only see a small selection of the available tweets. Thanks for your help

#1243

+1 again!

#1244

I have a wordpress blog and recently I’ve added the official Twitter timeline widget to my side bar.
It works perfectly fine on Internet explorer but is not working properly on chrome browser.
On chrome it’s either shown a blank box or shown for less than one second and then disappear.
This is the link for my site (it’s in hebrew) - erech-muhlat.com
Would appreciate any assistance…
Thanks in advance.

#1245

I’vve just had a look at this and it works fine in my chrome, which is the latest version. Also works in Firefox.

#1246

Any idea why the word press widget re-writes the id number upon saving? Every time I paste the id number into the id field and hit save, the number changes. It doesn’t seem to matter which browser I’m using either, I’ve tried it in Chrome, Firefox and Safari (all on Mac) and the behavior is the same. Nothing in my timeline shows up in the resultant widget and the Frequent Problems page is really less than helpful.