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How to Display Twitter on your Website or Blog
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Summary:
Twitter is all the rage. You spend a lot of time posting to your Twitter account. Now re-display these same messages on your blog or web page via a FeedSweep widget.
Twitter is all the rage. You spend a lot of time posting to your Twitter account. Now re-display these same messages on your blog or web page via a FeedSweep widget.
The process is quite simple.
- Create a new twitter user at twitter.com (or use your existing one)
- Sign into Twitter and obtain your user ID. Your user ID is the number assigned to your profile.
- Hover over the rss button to show the feed address at the bottom of your browser
- Click rss feed at the bottom of your homepage and look for the number at the end of the URL that pops up in your browser; it's the number before ".rss"
- Click the rss icon in the right end of your browser to show your feed address in a feed reader , and note the number at the end of the rss feed
For example, in the following the user ID is '17066430'.
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/17066430.rss
- Determine the feed URL to use in the FeedSweep widget (the URL you paste into the FeedSweep editor) by applying this user ID to the following URL:
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/user_id_here.rss
For example, this is a complete Twitter feed URL:
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/17066430.rss
That's all there is to it!
Important! - The FeedSweep team has noticed many Twitter users use an incorrect URL.
This is incorrect: http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/17066430.rss
This is correct: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/17066430.rss
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10/30/2008, in category "FeedSweep How-To's"
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