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How to add Twitter to my blog

  1. peglegstarfish
    Member

    I'm new to Twitter and wondering how I can add my Twitter updates to a sidebar widget. I copied and pasted the code from a twitter widget into my wordpress widget, but all I end up with is a link to "follow me on twitter."

    Any help would be so appreciated. Thanks!

  2. wpvstp
    Member

    Will this help?
    http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/can-i-have-a-twitter-badge/

  3. drbrett70
    Member

    Didn't help me. I can't get it to work. Followed the directions to a t and nada.

  4. thesacredpath
    Member

    It does work, I just did it in my own test blog for another post.

    Post your twitter feed URL here.

  5. raincoaster
    Member

    Could you be more specific?

  6. tammydotts
    Member

    On a related note, I followed the instructions in the FAQ and it worked. But it's not displaying any updates from when I first created the widget. Any ideas?

  7. vivianpaige
    Member

    The RSS feeds are cached, meaning that it takes a while for them to update.

  8. organicsis
    Member

    Do you know approx how long it takes to update?

  9. vivianpaige
    Member

    No, I don't

  10. bubel
    Staff

    What is the feed URL you are currently using?

  11. embrownny
    Member

    Thanks @wpvstp, that really helped.

  12. digiredo
    Member

    I don't seem to be able to get Twitter to work, actually none of the RSS feeds work. Any idea?

  13. carocat
    Member

    Can you post the RSS feeds you're trying to use here, please?

  14. carocat
    Member

    In addition, the blog linked in your profile does not link to a wordpress.com blog. Can you specify which blog you're asking about?

  15. leanng
    Member

    http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/15565969.rss

    I tried to use this feed & it appeared on the blog but it stated that an error occurred. Help?

  16. vivianpaige
    Member

    If you are hosted here at wordpress.COM, please provide a link to your blog. And consider linking it in your user name as explained in the sticky at the top of the forum.

    If you are hosted here, the problem is that you must replace the word "friends" in the link with the word "user" (no quotes)

  17. raincoaster
    Member

    You can't use your Friend feed. You can only use your own as far as I'm aware.

  18. paulg1
    Member

    Hi, I'm new to all of this. Regarding Twitter, I followed the instructions everyone has been recommending but my blog says "An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later."

    It's said that for ages. Is this related to how long it takes for Twitter updates to appear on WP or is there something else I should be doing?

    Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere.

  19. vivianpaige
    Member

    Please post the link that you have in your RSS feed.

  20. paulg1
    Member

    http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/16983153.rss

  21. vivianpaige
    Member

    Thanks. I don't see that link on the blog in your user name. Did you take it off?

  22. paulg1
    Member

    Er. Confused now. I took the feed and placed it into the RSS widget as advised. Have I missed something. Sorry, not the most technologically minded of people...

  23. vivianpaige
    Member

    Sorry - didn't mean to confuse you. I clicked on your blog http://cadmium2.wordpress.com/ and I don't see the widget in your sidebar. Is that not the blog you are referring to?

  24. paulg1
    Member

    No, sorry. http://www.endofthelane.wordpress.com

  25. vivianpaige
    Member

    OK, I see the problem. Somehow, the link in the RSS feed you have there is to http://endofthelane.wordpress.com/ In your dashboard, go to design > widgets and make sure you have sidebar1 selected. Edit the RSS widget (should be the one at the top) and in the url, put in http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/16983153.rss Be sure to click change (at the bottom of the widget) and then save changes (at the bottom of the page). Then see if the message disappears. (Might take a few minutes.)

  26. paulg1
    Member

    Sorry, I did as you said and left it half an hour. It still links to my blog. Its no different to what I did before... Any other ideas? :)

  27. raincoaster
    Member

    You still have the wrong link in there somehow. Sidebars do take awhile to refresh, but it shouldn't take more than an hour.

    But when I clicked on that feed link in your post here, it asked for my Twitter API key. Are your updates protected? Because then this will never work.

  28. paulg1
    Member

    Aha! You are a genius! Either that or I am a dunce. (Rhetorical question - please don't answer)

    It was staring me in the face. I have unprotected my updates and it now works.

    It's Sunday. I'm allowed to stupid on a Sunday. Well, that's my excuse anyway...

    Thanks to you both for your help :)

  29. vivianpaige
    Member

    Glad you got it to work. (And I didn't know about the protected thing, rain.)

  30. raincoaster
    Member

    No worries. I did something similarly obvious myself yesterday. You're welcome.

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