great twitter idea, any advice?

[boandmichele]

id love to implement the following into my forum, but i have no idea how to go about it.

using twitter, id love there to be a way for my users to 'twitter' and it pop up in a box on the front page of the site. this would be a huge draw to my site specifically, and id love for there to be a way about this.

does anyone have any ideas? i can see it in my head, let me know if i need to be more specific.


*edit* there is this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=185378&highlight=twitter, but that displays on the member's profile page, which is too far buried for my members to get any use from it.

[keith455]

I want the same thing sort of.. but I'd like to have it on separate page.
I tried to modify the twitter in profile hack but I don't know enough to get it working. :(

[keith455]

Would a donation help get this mod created?

[keith455]

anyone??

[DotSauce]

I am looking for this aswell. Would be a huge *sticky* factor for all forums. Allowing people to tweet from your forum instead of going to Twitter directly.

The code is already out there to connect to Twitter API. Anyone want to make it work with vB please? I predict a very popular mod.

[keith455]

I'd be willing to donate some money to have someone create this. Anyone else?

[Brandon Sheley]

Have you taken a look at the Twitter API?
This would have to be custom made, as you see the only twitter mod we have now in the profile.

Cheers
-Brandon

[kursed]

Include me in the list of people who want such a mod.

[DotSauce]

This code seems promising.. but the main drawback is you would have to ask forum members to give their twitter passwords.

http://woork.blogspot.com/2007/10/twitter-send-message-from-php-page.html

[Darth Gill]

Count me in - this would be awesome!

[boandmichele]

wow i never checked this thread back after a couple of weeks, since there was no response. i would be very happy to contribute money to this mod, it should be pretty straightforward for someone who knows what they are doing, with the twitter API.

all i want is a little box on the forum index that displays the twitters our users send. :)

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This code seems promising.. but the main drawback is you would have to ask forum members to give their twitter passwords.

http://woork.blogspot.com/2007/10/twitter-send-message-from-php-page.html

that looks like the exact opposite, twittering FROM vb to twitter.

our site is deal-oriented, among other things. what i specifically envision is...

say a member is out at target and they see that a TV is on clearance for a really good price, they could twitter (somehow lol), and say 'hey this tv is really cheap at target in franklin, va', and that appears on the forum index.

[ragtek]

wow

thx 4 the link with the tweetstats^^
maybe i can include it in my vb_tweeter class

[keith455]

I got both of these to work but they just display a users tweets.
I created a username for my site and was thinking if i follow everyone from my forum i could then just show all the tweets on the page just like if i go to twitter.com with the forum username.
http://weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt/archive/2008/10/05/6658557.aspx
http://www.twitter2html.com/

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I got it working how i want it but now I need to figure out how to add the user's icon/twittername. here's the code. You have to add it as a new page and put the twitter name in place of USERNAME.

<div id="twitter_div">
<h2 class="sidebar-title">User Updates</h2>
<ul id="twitter_update_list"></ul>
<a href="http://twitter.com/USERNAME" id="twitter-link" style="display:block;text-align:right;">Follow US on Twitter and your Tweets will show up here too</a>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/USERNAME.json?callback=twitterCallback2&amp;count=25"></script>