SimpleTweets For Umbraco

By leen3o on Jan 11 2010 | 2 Comments

“Not again” I hear you shout… And yes, yet ‘another’ Twitter package for Umbraco has been created. But, this one has a bit of a twist – I have used the current Twitter packages, but although I found them great the one I used was temperamental with showing latest tweets (Although the more I look into it I wonder if its one of the settings).

Also I wanted to make something VERY simple, no API, simple settings and all done with ASP.NET – NO XSLT! No real reason, just because I can… hehehe.  So here it is, I created this SimpleTweets a really simple package that displays your latest Twitter posts in a user control and spits out the results in an unordered list. 

Only settings are: Your username, your twitter RSS feed (Found on right hand side of your twitter page, see below) and lastly how many tweets to show.  It auto hyperlinks URLs, and adds nofollow attribute to them.

DOWNLOAD PACKAGE HERE

Settings:

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Twitter RSS Feed location:

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Results (On our site):

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Comments

Chris Houston
Chris Houston United Kingdom on 1/28/2010 1:18 AM Hi Lee,

Does your package convert @names and #search strings into links as well as the norml HTTP / HTTPS urls?

Cheers,

Chris
Lee
Lee United Kingdom on 1/28/2010 6:38 AM Hey Chris, it only converts links into hyper links using Regex but with nofollow attributes - It could be easily changed to convert hashtags and names, but it is was it is Smile  Simple tweets...