Tweet Blender

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Better than Twitter’s own widgets – Tweet Blender is tag-aware and has support for multiple authors, lists, hashtags, and keywords all blended together. The plugin can show tweets from just one user or a list of users (as all other Twitter plugins do); however, it can also show tweets for a topic which you can define via Twitter hashtag or keyword. But there is more! It can also show tweets for multiple authors AND multiple lists AND multiple keywords AND multiple hashtags all blended together into a single stream. Submit ideas, ask questions, or report problems on the GetSatisfaction.com community site for Tweet Blender widget Follow Tweet Blender on Twitter to keep up to date on bug fixes and releases and join the conversation using #tweetblender hashtag Features Checkboxes on the archive page allowing to see archive for just some of the sources Fully localizable! Russian translation available as of 3.3.6, more languages coming soon (please get in touch if you can help) Ability to apply filtering to lists e.g. @tweetblender/testlist|plugin will pull all tweets from that list that contain word “plugin” Ability to get Cache Manager addon ($) that allows to backup/restore cache and delete individual tweets If you use custom field “tb_tags” for a post its value overrides actual tags and gets used by Tweet Blender for Tags widget (requested by Thomas P via GetSatisfaction) Support for non-English hashtags and filter words A filter that allows to filter out tweets that are from different screen names but have exactly same content A filter that allows to show only replies and hide original tweets Ability to define custom text for “view more” link Support for multi-keyword phrase searches (e.g. Tweet Blender) Ability to define name that shows up instead of twitter handle using a colon (e.g. @joesmith:Joe Smith would show “Joe Smith” for each tweet instead of “@joesmith”) Throttling that allows to limit number of tweets to show for each user account. You can now have X tweets for each user in the list no matter how frequently each of them tweets. Favorites widget that shows favorite tweets or one or multiple users Improved cache management controls Ability to qualify searches using a pipe symbol. For example @user|#fun will get all tweets from @user that contain #fun in them Ability to filter out tweets that come from ceratin users or contain certain undersired keywords or hashtags Ability to turn ON/OFF display of mentions Quick, simple and secure way to insert widget into your posts and pages Multi-widget support – include any number of widgets in the sidebar or on the page with different sources in each. Database-driven efficient caching Widget that automatically shows relevant tweets by using post’s tags Show tweets for one or more Twitter lists (e.g. @tweetblender/testlist) Allows to blend tweets from private accounts if you authorize access to your Twitter account that follows these private users (requires oAuth so PHP5 only). Status tab in the admin panel that shows API limits remaining and cache information Shows tweets from one or more Twitter users (e.g. @tweetblender) Shows tweets for one or more topic defined by keywords (e.g. ‘wordpress’) Shows tweets for one or more topic defined by Twitter hashtag (e.g. #wordpress) Shows tweets for multiple users, multiple topics, and multiple hashtags blended together into single stream Allows to turn display of user’s photo ON/OFF. Photos can be OFF in the sidebar to conserve screen space and ON on the archive page. Allows to replace @screennames in tweets with links to user accounts (open in new window) Allows to replace #hastags in tweets with links to Twitter search results for that hashtag (open in new window) Allows to replace URLs in tweets with links to those URLs (open in new window) Automatically creates a page with archive (a longer, expanded list of tweets). Can be disabled if you want to create archive manually or don’t need an archive. Allows to specify number of tweets to show in each widget Allows to specify number of tweets to show on the archive page Provides template tag <?php tweet_blender_widget(); ?> to include one or more widgets on any page Provides “refresh” icon that allows users to manually refresh tweet list Allows to specify refresh period which turns ON automatic refresh of the tweet list. Can be set for each individual widget instance Checks screennames, lists, keywords, and hashtags for validity prior to saving Displays “reply” and “follow” links for each tweet that appear when user places mouse over the tweet area. Can be turned ON/OFF Allows to create individual twitter streams for different authors by using tweet_blender_widget() tag Provides advanced distributed caching mechanism to store Twitter data and work around Twitter API’s connection limit Allows to reroute all Twitter API requests via blog’s web server to take advantage of white-listed server (with oAuth) Allows to filter tweets by language (for hashtags and keyword sources only) Getting Help Tweet Blender support community page Email: tweetblender AT gmail DOT com Note #1: I might not get back to you immediately. This software is written and supported by an individual, not a company or a group. I have a demanding full time job and family with two kids. All of my free time is spent on fun projects like this one. Note #2: Please don’t flame me for bugs. Twitter is notoriously unstable and has some bugs in the API. On top of it, I use jQuery library that has some bugs in it as well. On top of it you might have other plugins installed that have bugs or introduce conflicts. Finally, 90% of the code works within browsers which have all sorts of different bugs of their own. Before calling TweetBlender “crap” give it a benefit of a doubt – it might not be its problem. I’m really striving to make it the best it could be