Mini Mods - Add flying twitter bird to your threads

This little template modification will guide you through the few simple steps that allows you to Add flying twitter bird to your threads.

The bird flying animated effect by JavaScript and when you scroll the page Up or Down, twitter bird will come in front of your page. The bird found itself as the ?follow me? link on the Twitter account. If you move the mouse pointer over the bird, a ?follow me? button and a ?tweet this? button displayed.

Demo is here

Installation:-
Go to
Admin Control Panel > Styles & Templates > Style Manager > Show Thread Templates > SHOWTHREAD

Before the following code:

{vb:raw header}

Add this:

<!-- Twitter Bird for Forums-->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://bloggerblogwidgets.googlecode.com/files/way2blogging.org-tripleflap.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    var twitterAccount = "egyptsons";
    var tweetThisText = " {vb:raw thread.title} - {vb:raw vboptions.bburl}/{vb:raw thread_url}";
    tripleflapInit();
</script>
<!-- Twitter Bird for Forums -->

Change egyptsons to your twitter username
Save and you're done!

Please note that: this widget is for blogger I modified it to work with VB forums & Original widget is here

Regards,
Ahmed Salah

[egyptsons]

Originally Posted by initiald

Is it possible if we can customize the bird?

It's not possible unless you upload the java script file and bird photo to your website
don't forgot to edit the java script file with the new bird's photo link
The bird photo is attached.

[initiald]

Which java script file that I can upload to?

[egyptsons]

Originally Posted by initiald

Which java script file that I can upload to?

this one

http://bloggerblogwidgets.googlecode.com/files/way2blogging.org-tripleflap.js