Twitter real time search
July 18, 2010 |
Posted by:
Gopi R |
Wordpress plugin |
38 Comments |
Twitter real time search plugin will scroll the most recent twittered content based on the entered search word. This widget displays the content from the twitter feed not just a display it will scroll the content one by one in the widget. It’s real time information from the twitter search. Every time it will fetch and display most recent twitter content.
About Twitter Search
Keeping up with interesting news and people you care about is one dimension of Twitter, but what if you need to find out what’s happening in the world beyond your personal timeline?
There is an undeniable need to search, filter, and otherwise interact with the volumes of news and information being transmitted to twitter every second.
Twitter Search helps you filter all the real-time information coursing through our service.
Features of this plugin
- Real time twitter search in your side bar.
- Recent twittered contents.
See live demo on sidebar. This scroll content from twitter and am using the word “wordpress” to fetch the content. Do you want scroll the own content instead of twitter content? use announcement and vertical scroll news plugin. Do you want scroll the rss feed? use continuous rss scrolling plugin.
Installation Instruction
Method 1
- Download the plugin scroll-twitter-realtime-search.zip from download directory.
- Unpack the scroll-twitter-realtime-search.zip file
- Extract the /scroll-twitter-realtime-search/ folder.
- Drop the scroll twitter realtime search folder into your ‘wp-content/plugins’ folder.
- In word press administration panels, click on plug-in from the menu.
- You should see your new scroll twitter realtime search plug-in listed.
- To turn the wordpress plug-in on, click activate.
Method 2
- Go to ‘add new’ menu under ‘plugins’ tab in your word-press admin.
- Search scroll twitter realtime search plugin using search option.
- Find the plugin and click ‘Install Now’ link.
- Finally click activate plug-in link to activate the plug-in.
Method 3
- Download the plugin scroll-twitter-realtime-search.zip from download link.
- Go to ‘add new’ menu under ‘plugins’ tab in your word press admin.
- Select upload link (top link menu).
- Upload the available scroll-twitter-realtime-search.zip file and click install now.
- Finally click activate plug-in link to activate the plug-in.
Plugin configuration
Drag and drop the widget: Go to widget page under appearance tab, Drag and drop Twitter real time search widget into your side bar.
Update the search keyword: Click on the configure button (small down triangle) for the Twitter real time search widget and here you can update all the styles and keyword.
Frequently asked questions
Q1. How to change the search word?
Go to widget management area and change the ‘Enter Twitter Search word’ field.
Q2. Can I change the Slide Direction?
Yes, 0=down-up and 1=up-down.
Q3. Can I customize the all other appearance style?
Yes, Click on the configure button (small down triangle) for the Twitter real time search widget and here you can customize all the ‘Twitter real time search’ front end styles. See screen two.
Q4. Why my news content out of range?
In front end widget area, if you see any news content out of area or invisible, it because of height and width of the widget, so you should arrange width and height of the widget in widget configuration area to good look. In default I have fixed width: 180px and height: 120px.
Q5. Can I change the scroll manner from vertical to horizontal?
No, Option not available.
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what is that mean?
I would be nice to be able to display a certain hashtag… would you consider this for future versions?
Sure, it would be great to have a live feed of tweets about #something
Great plugin – congrats – works like a charm, the only thing i miss is that i cant choose that the URLs could open in a new window
Modified line 307:
From: Text Alignt (left/center/right/justify)
To: Text Align (left/center/right/justify)
Notice the t after Align
Also, the parameters for alignment and such do not seem to work. And the text is being chopped off on the left and right in the scrolling box.
And if I enter text in the None of these words field I don’t get anything happening in the scrollbox.
Excellent widget,thank you… but I can’t set the language to English. I click save and it reverts back to ‘any language’
I removed the widget – the text appears outside and to the right of the box. Only the title appears in the box. I also set the text color to black but the theme’s style sheet overrides the widget settings and display the text as red. I am using WP 3.0.1
Great bunch of pi’s you got here! Hard to decide a favorite.
I have 2 questions.
1.- Can I write in the “twitter searh word” more than one word, I dont know 3 or 4 words ..?
2.- How many time it’s update msg display ??
Help me..! pls
great job..! Can you help me with before question ?
yes, you can enter n words “http://search.twitter.com/” search the words using this link and in the search result page, click feed,
the same result u ll get in the widget.
Thanks
Great plug-in! I am having a problem with it displaying search results it is just telling me that there is no content available. I have tried a variety of search terms, but with no success. I have also tried the searches on twitter and they all work.
Can you please let me know if there is anything I can try to resolve the issue? The site is currently pw protected, so please let me know if that could affect the functionality?
Thanks!
Jack
Hi, installed yesterday and it looks great, thanks.
The initial set of results appeared but it doesn’t look like it’s updating. The same tweets appear and they’re now 20 hours old.
The search term is London taxi and I’m running the latest WP installation wordpress-3.0.2. Any ideas please?
Just updated the language setting and current results now appear again. I’ll check again in a few hours to see if that’s fixed it.
Hey just a heads up, you forgot to define the script type when you call the .js file. It throws the Xhtml validation off
On your site the error is here:
Line 520, Column 158: required attribute “type” not specified
Just needs the type defineing then the Xhtml validates nicely as you can see from my site
Great plug in
.
would be nice to have the relative time.
on another note, if you want to use more than 1 keyword, Twitter has the ability to use operators like google (OR and AND). Your search term can be something like so:
chickens OR “I Love Chickens” OR mycoolusername
Hi, great plug-in thanks! Is it possible to put the widget directly on a page instead of the sidebar widget?
Nice plugin. 3 suggested features:
a.) That it remembers the selected language (every time I hit save the default – all languages is overwriting my selected english)
b.) Ability to block all tweets that have a link.
c.) Ability to show more than just one tweet.
Thanks otherwise
The problem I found (easy fix I am sure) is that it skews to the right, almost touching the right margin (even in your demo here.) On some themes there is no way to get the text off that right hand border line.
Dave
Great Job… Only one little thing…
Hen opening a link in the widget, the user is taken to the page-but in the same window as the blog!
Could you have at least the default be to open a new window, please?
If anyone else wanted, perhaps a choice in the configuration, but for now a good fix would be _blank
Thanks for a great widget!
P.S. A bit of REGEX (AND OR) wouldn’t hurt!
I second (or third) the open in new tab/window option. I want to keep users on my site, not drive them away.
Didn’t like the fact that a cick took the user away frm the blog, so I made the .php look like:
[...]
if ( $link == ” ) {
$myLink = $title;
} else {
$myLink = ‘‘ . $author . ‘: ‘ . $title . ‘‘;
}
$myLink = mysql_real_escape_string($myLink);
[...]
Making this selectable in the set GUI would have been ideal, bit I can’t spend time on your excellent plugin right how.
Sorry:
[...]
if ( $link == ” ) {
$myLink = $title;
} else {
$myLink = ‘‘ . $author . ‘: ‘ . $title . ‘‘;
}
$myLink = mysql_real_escape_string($myLink);
[...]
Better?
The plugin does not work correctly in Wordpres 3.1.1.
But it is an excellent idea especially if you could search for hashtags
Sorry my English
This is way more helpful than ayinthng else I’ve looked at.
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[...] Live demo More Description About Author Suggenstion/comments [...]
Hello,
Wondering if this is possible…
Rather than entering a search term is it possible to use the post-title from each post? So users can see comments regarding each post-title.
Cheers
Post scroll plugin available in my plugin list.
I looked at the plugin. I should clarify my previous comment. A twitter feed search based on the post title.. Is it possible?
Great plugin 1 suggested feature:
- Show images beside the tweets from the users
Hello,
love the widget, but is it possible to scroll only tweets from a specific username?
It would also be nice to show not only tweets from that user, but tweets that mention or are in reply to that user.
Thanks,
Brendan
To amend my previous comment (after more carefully reviewing the comments… sorry) Is it possible to see ALL tweets from a specific user, not just the tweets that were posted recently?
can i post it on a page by using shortcode
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