List Tweets with WordPress

The provided widgets that social networking sites like Twitter make offer for external web sites, are not my favourite – I understand the logic behind them; trying to make something consistent, universal, visually flexible, recognizable, ect.. but some sites integration of the social networking tools, are just horrible -

I believe every site should have a social networking feeds.. it shows you’re an active user and it keep your followers interested – but I also believe it has to look good.

I use Twitter for my networking (because it has relatively no ads), so I’ve written this script to pull tweets from a users RSS feed, then format the tweets any way I want. It’s on my site as well as hey-you.ca in the footers.

(If you can’t find your twitter ID in the source code of your twitter page, get it from this site)

The function can be called from your footer.php or whichever file like so:

<?
echo "<h1>Tweets</h1>" .
      yourplugin_twitter_feed('123456789');
?>

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