See tweet.seaofclouds.com, or the bundled index.html file.
- 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
- customize the layout with a user-defined template function
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Get JQuery. In these examples, we use Google's AJAX Libraries API.
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include jQuery and jquery.tweet.js files in your template's
<head>.<script language="javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.1/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script language="javascript" src="/tweet/jquery.tweet.js" type="text/javascript"></script> -
Also in <head>, 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> -
In <body>, include a placeholder for your tweets. They'll get loaded in via JSON. How fancy!
<div class="tweet"></div>
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Style with our stylesheet in <head>, or modify as you like!
<link href="jquery.tweet.css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
Bring your code slinging skills to Github and help us develop new features for tweet!
git clone git://github.com/seaofclouds/tweet.git
Report bugs at http://github.com/seaofclouds/tweet/issues
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!