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Simple Twitter Integration

Joined: 12/08/2008

I'm currently setting up my first drupal site (head spinning) I just need to display the latest Tweet or tweets from one account. I don't need users to be able to setup or use twitter in drupal, I just need a block on the home page showing a tweet from the account I tell it. I installed the Twitter Module http://drupal.org/project/twitter but cant seem to get it working and documentation is scarce to say the least.

thanks,
Jamie

Joined: 10/18/2008
Does the Twitter module work

Does the Twitter module work at all for you? (ie how far have you gotten with it?)

The module will let you set who has permissions. Once you get it configured, it gives you a default view (if you have Views installed) which will help you display your tweets. You could easily clone/modify that view for a block.

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Joined: 12/08/2008
yeah, the module doesn't

yeah, the module doesn't currently work at all, but I am having a memory error on the modules page so that might be what is causing it.

-jamie

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Joined: 06/01/2006
A simple solution....

You're twitter feed is available via RSS. You can use the aggregator module to pull them in and then display them. You can, even, use views to display them the way you like.

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Joined: 12/08/2008
ah the Feed aggregator works

ah the Feed aggregator works nicely, probably a much simpler solution to fit my current needs. I also got the twitter module working, however i cant get the blocks to display on my home page, I have other blocks currently displaying on the front page but the twitter module or RSS block will not display, they do display on interior pages.

any ideas?

-jamie

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config?

What pages do you have them configed to display on?

Matt Farina
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Joined: 12/08/2008
i tried just doing "front" then i

i tried just doing "front" then i set it to all

Update:

In case anyone else is having the same trouble with the Twitter module showing on the front page
here's a simple fix http://drupal.org/node/380570

-jamie