In this post i will show you how to make a gadget to display your latest tweets.
There are already a few twitter gadgets available.
The differance : i have added images,links and use the light blue font color used in twitter to give it a more professional look.
So to get your twitter gadget just follow these steps:
1.Click Layout-->Add a gadget for your blog.
2.Choose Html/Javascript
3.Copy all of the code below into the area provided.
Here's the code for the gadget :
(see edits needed below code)
<a href="http://www.twitter.com/YOUR TWITTER USER HERE" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu40/paulcrowe/twitter.png"/><img border="0" alt="Twitter" src="http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad259/spiceupyourblog/twitter.png"/></a><font color="#49C8F0"><br/><br/><b><center><u>Latest Tweets</u></center></b></font><br/>
<div id="twitter_div"><font color="#49C8F0"><i>
<h2 style="display:none;" class="sidebar-title">Twitter Updates</h2>
<ul id="twitter_update_list"></ul>
<a id="twitter-link" style="display:block;text-align:right;" href="http://twitter.com/YOUR TWITTER USER HERE">follow me on Twitter</a>
</i></font></div>
<script src="http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/YOUR TWITTER USER HERE.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=3" type="text/javascript"></script>
<a href="http://twitter.com/YOUR TWITTER USER HERE" target="_blank"><font color="#49C8F0">Twitter.com/YOUR TWITTER USER HERE</font></a> <br/><br/>
You MUST now make the following changes to set gadget to your Twitter :
We Are Nearly Finished - First A Quick Reminder:
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1.Were you see YOUR TWITTER USER HERE replace with your twitter User name
Example : http://twitter.com/spiceyourblog
2.Were you see 'count=3' in the code this can be changed to set how many tweets will be displayed in the gadget.
Example : count=4 count=5 count=6
Once you have made the changes click save and your done.
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