New feature: Dynamic timeline selection for embedded timelines

charlottelove · 2013-06-18T22:59:30.000Z

My embedded timeline is not updating in real-time, what have I done wrong?
Tweets about “#skolan, #svpol”

ravennasoftware · 2013-07-01T22:06:11.000Z

Dude! PLEEEEEAAAAASSSSSE enable client side query override. Tons of my stuff is breaking now that these come server side only.

septerr · 2013-07-02T21:20:49.000Z

With this it seems all attributes that are specified in the widget can be overridden in the embed code, so why is there a requirement to creata a widget at all?
The only reasons I can think of are,

Twitter would like to be aware of who are embedding whose timelines.
Twitter can revoke a widget in case the widget owner is somehow misusing the feature to harras somebody.
I’d appreciate an answer, it bugs me when I do not know why something is implemented a certain way.

benward · 2013-07-02T23:50:13.000Z

Providing configuration and customisation through the settings page makes it easier for CMS systems and the like to integrate widgets on demand for a user (who can just paste an ID, rather than needing to meddle with HTML), without every implementation having to create a unique set-up interface for fonts/colours and so forth, that would then be obsolete and semi-functional when we add more. Having an ID for the widget means all of that configuration can be kept at the source of truth.

Not all of that is realized yet, and some of the client-side set-up needs to exposed on the server-side to be complete, but hopefully it will make widgets much more accessible to any level of user in the long term.

Both of your points (registration and response to cases abuse) are also benefits. As you can observe on the forum over the past week, the big API change and its effect on the old timeline widget caught a lot of people by surprise, despite 8 months of announcement and preparation. We didn’t have any way to contact people who had implemented the old timeline widgets to alert them to the need for action. It’s very frustrating for them, for us, for everyone. And while such a massive change is not likely to occur again, it’s better to assume that we’ll need to alert people to something some day, and having it linked to user accounts means we can.

Ben

FILEXB · 2013-07-08T14:23:10.000Z

Ben thanks man

yonasing · 2013-07-15T17:47:30.000Z

Hi I would like to suggest a simple modification on user profile. pls look at this url. this way it would be more descriptive and i guess it will make more sense.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BPENL6gCEAAATBZ.png

cheers

yonasing · 2013-07-15T17:53:00.000Z

oh wrong link, this one http://t.co/4dl2gh72no

camguerra_ · 2013-07-15T21:40:00.000Z

Thanks master!

AvakabaBa · 2013-08-05T15:45:05.000Z

Please help with this old widget replacement:

I've been reading a lot about the v1.1 but can't seem to get this to work. (included is the original, I've made too many failed attempts to copy them here)

madebyliam · 2013-08-07T19:52:12.000Z

I would like to hide the inline-media class that holds images on the embedded timeline. I tried using data-src-2x=“false” , target the class in the iframe with display:none with CSS and .hide() method with jQuery to no avail. Could not see any customisation options for this in the documentation. Anybody else have this problem?

benward · 2013-08-07T20:11:06.000Z

Hi Liam,

You can just go to http://twitter.com/settings/widgets for your widget, and uncheck ‘auto-expand photos’ to hide the inline media.

Ben

onedrop77 · 2013-08-09T11:00:07.000Z

Hi Ben,

Please help!

I have a site that dynamically generates multiple search terms every day. The user then clicks on those terms and a customised widget shows the search results (merged with specific timelines). The search terms generated are numerous so setting up a widgit with a unique ID each time each day is not practical.

Grabbing and caching the results on the the server then dynamically loading them on the client also seems out of the question because of the rate limits. The search terms represent dynamic situations (rolling news etc) - so need to be updated constantly (say every 30 secs). If you have 200 terms, so 400 searches per minute 24000 per hour - not looking good.

Before the 1.1 API upgrade each client was responsible for their own searches depending on what search they clicked, the web page would only search on the ‘active’ widget thus limiting their searches. Again, if this was server based there would be rate limit problems - say you have 2000 people using the site, each is asking the server for a new search every 30 seconds.

Since the upgrade I cant seem to find a new framework to make this work any more - except loading the searches in a new window withiun the twitter.com site - but that takes a lot away from the concept. I spent a goo few months on this and now…its broken!

peteduprince · 2013-08-10T17:11:11.000Z

I just need exactly the same as @onedrop77 , used to do this with the old one, and now that i’m finishing my master thesis and i wanted to use it as proof of concept for social context awareness and its not possible anymore. could you at least tell when or if its coming?

best regards
pete

episod · 2013-08-12T14:37:28.000Z

It’s not possible to provide the kind of experience you’re looking to provide using the search-based embedded timeline widgets.

If you required your end users to authenticate, you would look likely have better rate limiting scenarios to leverage – API v1.1’s model is that you grow your use of the API through requiring users to auth. Then when you’re executing a reoccurring query, you’re doing so on behalf of the user(s) who are interested in that information.

I also recommend taking a look at the Streaming API. While it can take a bit more work to get started with it, often the best way to scalably search Twitter data is to already have it.

valentincarlos · 2013-09-09T16:58:50.000Z

hola a todos quiero pedirles su apoyo. e anexado el a IP del twitter en mi sitio. para ver mi noticia de forma cronologica. pero desde 2 meses e tenido problema al mostrarlo en el navegador, alguien me puede ayudar o orientar para que esto se vea sin problemas en caulquier navegador. en internet explore con la version 10 aparese asi http://www.voluntarios.cij.gob.mx/ y con mozilla,

MrFent · 2013-09-12T23:27:03.000Z

Hi @benward, you posted about 12 weeks ago that you weren’t currently working on “reconfiguring search queries,” and I was just wondering if you had any updates in regard to this matter. Thanks

episod · 2013-09-13T15:02:41.000Z

Hi @MrFent,

There are no updates to report, sorry.

chriscdk · 2013-09-17T15:25:00.000Z

Hey @benward, I have embedded a search query based on the Advanced search tool you described earlier in this thread: https://twitter.com/search-advanced

I was wondering if there is any way I can specify the date range for the tweets to be a part of? Or even something like sinceId - I have tried implementing this directly onto the I am embedding, but without success.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

vincentisambart · 2013-09-18T00:35:56.000Z

At https://twitter.com/search-home if you click on “operators”, you can see how to specify for example a date range.

chriscdk · 2013-09-19T18:00:32.000Z

Thanks Vince, that has worked. One final question, if I need to update the date range every week or two, do I need to recreate the entire widget - it seems that simply updating the <a href to embed the timeline has no effect on the output.