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009 Adding custom Twitter searches and feeds to your sites

009 Adding custom Twitter searches and feeds to your sites

From the course: View Source

009 Adding custom Twitter searches and feeds to your sites

Hello! This is Ray Villalobos and welcome to View Source. In this episode I'm going to show you how to place custom Twitter feeds on any web site. So stop flooding the Twitterverse, because it's time to View Source. Twitter is an amazing network that lets people communicate with each other in 140 words or less, although it's often misunderstood, and people do tweet about seemingly meaningless things. One way I like to use Twitter is to generate feeds of information about a specific topic. There's a lot of ways that you can include Twitter on your sites, including several WordPress plug-ins and hacks, but my favorite way is to use Twitter's own widgets. So you can find Twitter Widgets at this URL, and you can see that you can create different types of widgets based on profiles, different searches, favorites that you start within your own Twitter feed, or list widgets. You can create a profile widget if you want to create a widget following a specific person. So you simply put the name…

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