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How To Add Latest Twits To Your Sidebar

Chip on March 15, 2009

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I’ve always wanted to show my last twits in my sidebar. I’ve recently found out how. Here’s a quick tutorial:

Place the following code in your sidebar. Remember to style it properly and replace the username:

<?php // Your twitter username. $username = "butterflymedia"; // Prefix - some text you want displayed before your latest tweet. $prefix = "<h3>My last Tweet</h3>"; // Suffix - some text you want display after your latest tweet. (Same rules as the prefix.) $suffix = ""; $feed = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:" . $username . "&rpp=1"; function parse_feed($feed) { $stepOne = explode("<content type=\"html\">", $feed); $stepTwo = explode("</content>", $stepOne[1]); $tweet = $stepTwo[0]; $tweet = str_replace("<", "<", $tweet); $tweet = str_replace(">", ">", $tweet); return $tweet; } $twitterFeed = file_get_contents($feed); echo stripslashes($prefix) . parse_feed($twitterFeed) . stripslashes($suffix); ?>

6 Responses to How To Add Latest Twits To Your Sidebar

Payday Loans (10 comments) says:
March 16, 2009

thank you for a code I searched him long

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Pest Control Lake Forest IL (1 comments) says:
March 17, 2009

nice post, that is a really easy way to do what i want. viva la twitter!

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Molnar Laser (12 comments) says:
March 18, 2009

Fantastic post! this post have more informative code which more useful for me so thanks for given this.

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Goran Web Design (21 comments) says:
March 18, 2009

It sure does help when information gets shared by folks like you. Especially for non-coders like me! I still don’t really use twitter, but am starting to sit up and take notice, because the hype has to have some form of substance behind it, especially when it gets touted as the next Google!

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Health Problems (6 comments) says:
March 21, 2009

thanks for this post i knew about it already but it will be so helpful for new blogger.

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Chip (278 comments) says:
March 28, 2009

I’m glad you all find this information helpful. I’ll try to post more tutorials in the future.

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