Drupal Module: Twitter Block – Add Your Twitter Feed To Your Drupal Website
Why don’t you show how relevant you are to your site visitors and get more followers on twitter? Once they start following you, you can start pointing them to your website again and again now that you have their attention.
Unfortunately there isn’t a simple way to create this block from the existing drupal modules. The procedure to create a Twitter block is very convoluted using Views and what not.
But first, a little rant. It seems like a lot of developers are more focused on being ‘standards complaint’ (politically correct) than create easy to use software as if they create software for other developers.
“Oh! let’s not rehash the code here, that’s not good core re-use. Let’s ask users of our module to download and install 10 other modules on which we will base this module!”
This block is installed through the module (download below).
The block is highly customizable. Check out the options you have in the administrator’s interface.
This interface is found in Administer > Sites Building > Blocks > Twitter Block [configure]
The blocks can be theme using css as each element is enclosed in a <div> of appropriate name.
Download
Click here to download the module.
Installation Steps
1. Install the Module: Just place the module in the modules directory of your drupal site or sites/all/modules/ directory if you have multiple installations. Log in as administrator and go to Site Building > Modules. Scroll to the bottom and find “Other” package. Expand it, check the TwitterBlock one and click Save Changes.
2. Place The Block In A Region: Now go to Administer > Site Building > Blocks. At the bottom of the list you will find Twitter Block. Drag it to the required region and click Save Changes.
3. Enter Username/Password: Once you click save, you will still not see the block, you must enter the username and password. So click on ‘configure’ next to Twitter block and enter your username and password. Choose a appropriate update frequency and click Save.
You’re all done. Your module should be working now. Leave a comment on this post regarding bug fixes and other issues.
License
This module is provided under the GPL license. Read the full version here.
James Huckabee August 14th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
I would like to make use of your module, but the link is broken. Could you fix the link, or email me the zip file? Thanks!
jowan September 18th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
requires ‘curl’ library
aim October 14th, 2009 at 3:32 am
The initial set up was pretty straightforward. But how do I alter the time display so that I can make it consistent with my other displayed items like the events calendar.
Thanks,
aim
Raj October 15th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
aim, You will have to edit the module file in order to change the date format.
anjar February 9th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
thanks, very usefull article…its more simple than twitter module..:D
Alan February 13th, 2010 at 3:07 am
Hi, thanks for putting this on the web. I gave up on the Twitter module when I was told I had to install Views and Views UI to use it.
IK February 13th, 2010 at 6:07 pm
cool… very easy and just what I was looking for.
Thanks!
JS March 27th, 2010 at 5:55 am
Hey, is there any way to show multiple twitter feeds? On my organizational website we like to show the twitter feed for the organizational twitter userid on the front page, but my own personal twitter feed on my personal sub-page.
Thanks. Great module, in any case!
Hipolito M. Wiseman April 22nd, 2010 at 10:10 pm
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