Twitter widget help

daVined · 2012-06-05T06:50:11.000Z

TO @ed_onedirection “how to add scroll bar” to existing twitter widget
I know Squat about CODE --but I Know Answer to This! Done this many times for Sidebar & widget photos, Just did it for my site’s twitter widget.

a) if no scroll bar/original design has and you want: widget too wide for (e.g., sidebar) space
b) look at html -scroll down till see: "width"
c) example: if it has “220” delete/reduce by (around) 5 until: scroll bar appears
d) e.g., on blogspot.com: widget: 220 and no scroll bar, but SAME widget: width 205 TaDa! nice big right-side scroll bar --And thin border matches other side border
If above isn’t clear/you’re not sure: copy/paste widget html directly into a fresh blank javascript gadget/widget, you’ll have duplicate; work on duplicate until achieve goal, delete original

MetSlow · 2012-06-05T12:20:18.000Z

Hi, did anyone get a fix ?

everything worked fine for me until a few days ago…now the twitter widget doesnt show my own tweets anymore, and also wont show the latest tweets first. As someone said above, even the play pen doesnt work anymore. So its seems only to show top tweets, and not all.

I have everything server side.

To me it seems the widegt api was changed and no longer can be used for my needs. Providing a live sevice update for trains means its vital to show latest tweets.

I did try some change to the widget.js file as mentioned on another post (and used this modifed file locally instead of https://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js) and i could get the tweets to be shown in order…to do this the following line in the widget.js had to be change:
if(!this.runOnce){this.url+="&result_type=filtered"}
and filtered changed to mixed, like this:
if(!this.runOnce){this.url+="&result_type=mixed"}

But, then all the tweets are shown with timestamp in seconds, never hours or mins…like 20345 seconds…and trying to turn of tiemstamp doesnt work…and besised why should we have to hack away at this file…

twitter, please help !!

mrodturnbull · 2012-06-05T19:33:34.000Z

Hey @episod,

please do you know exactly when the backwards-compatible profile widget will be released ?

Regards

meatcritter · 2012-06-06T12:53:33.000Z

Same problem here. BUT if I start the widget from local file system and in the same path put the stylesheet “widget.css” then it does work fine. Remember to add the folowing line to your HTML: line 3

.

See my code:

Barack Obama h3 { display: none; } h4 a { font-size: 40px; } p { font-size: 300%;

font-weight: bold;

}

  a.twtr-timestamp {
font-size: 28px;

}

mysterbret · 2012-06-12T10:58:49.000Z

Has anyone got a fix yet? Trying to add this widget for the first time and cannot get anything to work??

MsMoxieBand · 2012-06-13T08:35:07.000Z

Hello,
When do you think the Profile Widget will be “back to an implementation that will still be compatible with your WYSIWYG tools” for us iWeb and Dreamweavers users? Any HTML Snippet/Widget I use on my website builder (iWeb) looks and works fine, including Youtube, Tunecore media players, etc. Is there something different with the updating of tweets reflecting correctly in the widget?

Thanks in advance…
P.S. If I load my HTML(twitter widget) via my web server, then how do I go about designing/placing it properly within my site?

MsMoxieBand · 2012-06-13T08:56:39.000Z

I even trued to make a textedit HITML doc and it didn’t work…

fhoseinuk · 2012-06-27T19:40:59.000Z

I am using iWeb and the widget is blank for me also my URL is fawwaazhosein.com.

The code I’m using :

hogwartshero474 · 2012-07-05T17:31:40.000Z

I use google sites and I have tried putting on a widget and also a button but it says
"Your code contains some tags which are not permitted" Could you help?
Thanks

miguepuentes · 2012-07-10T16:17:00.000Z

It looks like there’s currently a bug with the API server which breaks widgets.
Don’t see any updates in http://status.twitter.com/

brentthomas11 · 2012-07-11T15:33:57.000Z

Still just showing the frame but no tweets. I asked the question a few days ago, but it’s been crickets so far. Any fix to this?

brentthomas11 · 2012-07-11T15:35:07.000Z

Anything new on this problem? Sometimes after about an hour, my tweets will show up, but then when I refresh the page, only the frame remains.

hmstigerband · 2012-07-13T06:17:08.000Z

I’m having the same problems. Why is this happening and not fixed. Seems like this could be a huge issue?

oSJoo · 2012-07-29T03:39:11.000Z

hi there follow

iznogood00 · 2012-07-29T18:06:52.000Z

same problem here.
works in different browser but won’t work in IE

Mamacat34 · 2012-07-29T18:16:08.000Z

whats all this mean and what do I need to do? Help, Im confused.

TheExchange4FIs · 2012-07-30T14:42:00.000Z

Ditto to all the previous posters on this issue. Twitter widget only seems to work sporadically. In addition, not only does the content appear sporadically on my site in the dev environment, it doesn’t even display all of the time on the Twitter Widget page itself: https://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets/

What gives Twitter?

episod · 2012-07-30T14:49:09.000Z

The widgets make unauthenticated API calls to populate. This means that per IP address, only 150 such requests can be made per hour for profile and list widgets. This limit is shared with everyone on the same IP address, and across all unauthenticated access to api.twitter.com. This can be depleted quickly in shared scenarios. Most often when you don’t see data in a widget, it’s because your IP address has run out of requests it can validly send the API. If you want more control over the way widgets display data, you’ll need to prepare the data server-side and in essence, build your own widget that doesn’t require unauthenticated API calls for each discreet inbound request.

ask_yeshua · 2012-08-01T08:11:47.000Z

That, my friend is a bit confusing.
I like your widget, its cool, i don’t want to build another widget.
Kindly share with me, how i can ‘clear requests’ coming from my ip;
so that it returns to 0, when the 150 quoter has been exhausted, Many Thanks.

eve_it_net · 2012-08-12T10:25:56.000Z

Ok so that’s why it’s not working.

Pretty useless for people who host their websites on shared platforms… e.g… most hosting providers.