Long ago, ages in fact, a generous Concrete5 user built up a simple little Twitter block that displayed Twitter feeds on any page. It was fairly simple, and had only one real shortcoming, in which if your website was in a shared hosting environment, the Twitter API would throttle you and an exception would appear on your page.
Time moved on and Concrete5 introduced a great packages feature that allows developers to build a collection of blocks, page types, etc and run them all through a simple installer. Slowly the old Twitter block started to become engorged in weeds and vines and became less useful.
Flash forward to... now!
Introducing Tweetcrete! A free Concrete5 add-on that allows you to easily place a Twitter feed on any page of your website. Tweetcrete utilizes the OAuth with the Twitter API so that you are authenticated and never throttled!
Currently Tweetcrete supports:
- OAuth API Authentication
- Avatar Display
- Limiting number of status updates
- Formatting of display date
- Linking of trends, usernames and urls
In future releases I will support useful things such as displaying trending topics, search results or other users. I also intend to include sexier alternate views in future releases.
Like most Concrete5 add-ons, you can find it on the Concrete5 Marketplace at: http://bit.ly/7G0dXI
If you have questions or suggestions, feel free to contact me.
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