Twitter - how can I show sponsor's feed on my site?

[carolc]

I have a sponsor who uses Twitter to broadcast new resale listings. I'd like to pull his tweets down to my site in one ongoing thread. Is there a way to do that? Would an RSS reader work, and if so is there one for vB? I use vB 3.8.

Thanks

[BirdOPrey5]

Yes an RSS feed would be the way to do this. An RSS Feed reader is built into vBulletin. Go to the Admin CP -> RSS Feeds -> Add a New RSS Feed

You select a username who will make the "post", you select which forum it will post to, and a bunch of other settings.

The only tricky part is the "new" twitter design hides the RSS URL, you need to switch back to "old twitter" - view the profile of the twitter user, and on the right side near the bottom will be an RSS Feed URL- that's the URL you enter into vBulletin... for example my twitter feed URL is:

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/178151128.rss

[carolc]

Thank you very much, Joe! It looks like each new Tweet will be its own thread, is that correct? (is there no way to force it into a specified thread). I mean, I guess I can live with this.

Also, if I want the tweets to disappear after about 2 weeks, is my only option to post as an 'announcement' and put 14 by "Days for Announcement to Remain Active"? Hate to have a bunch of 'announcements' (hoping it only is an announcement in one forum). But again, I can live with it.

Thanks

[BirdOPrey5]

There is this mod which will allow you to make RSS items as posts in a single thread instead of a new thread each time, but honestly it is a bit on the difficult side to install needing manual file edits. If you can live with them as new threads it will make life easier.

As for the two week thing, I could have SWORN I saw an "RSS Pruner" mod that auto deleted old RSS posts after a set time but I searched and searched and can't find it here anywhere, might have been removed.

Another possibility is in forum manager you can set the default thread age to "2 weeks" and it should hide threads older than 2 weeks for most people viewing- but that would affect every thread in that forum, not just RSS threads.