Comments on: MooTools TwitterGitter Plugin

By: pSouper

pSouper — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:21:19 +0000

Hi David et al,
I have a come up with a strange problem with twitterGitter – for one twitter account it is only getting tweets up until a date two months ago…

1: the tweets are not being cached in anyway
2: the tweets just seemed to stop at that date and not progressed since (for this account only)
3: ths account has plenty of tweets since this date
4: when i change the twitter account it shows them up until the latest tweet.
5: this problem persists using your demo code too.

Is it possible to that this account (a quite prolific tweeter) has so many tweets that the twitterGitter/twitterAPI has a limit of some kind that was met/exceeded at this date?
- such as get 64k tweets from tweet#1 and this happens to be the tweets at this date.

any help on this strange problem is very welcome.

twitter account concerned is available on request :)

thanks D,

By: Ciul

Ciul — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:42:26 +0000

I read this and read this other (http://appden.com/javascript/get-tweets-with-mootools/) and

then I wrote this which is a modified twitter request class

http://www.mooforum.net/script-showcase-f25/modified-twitter-request-t3782.html

on comments there I thanks to both sources, I’m newie to MooTools so don’t be that rude with my code…

I’d like to hear opinions anyway

By: Gerard

Gerard — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:47:08 +0000

to fix the retweet issue change part of the class to this

new JsonP(‘http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=‘ + this.username,{
data: {
since_id: this.options.sinceID,
include_rts:1,
count:this.options.count
},

The new user and “include_rts” fixes the issue

By: Gerard

Gerard — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:36:41 +0000

I am having the same issue with retweets not showing. I just increased the count from 1 to 3 so it just show the next tweet.

By: kolin

kolin — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:25:51 +0000

not sure if this is an issue, or i’m getting the wrong json response, but the response doesn’t seem to include retweets, but includes them in the count.

for example if i have a count of 5, but there are 3 retweets in there, it only actually shows 2 tweets.

anyone know if this is by design? the .json also doesnt show retweets in there.

By: wanda valentine

wanda valentine — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:46:47 +0000

as with nm, wondering about downloading the whole package.

i saw twittergitter on another website (http://www.epitonic.com/) and really like it, but really am an amateur website builder. i need an installation package for dummies i guess -that shows exactly what i need to put in the head, all the files to upload and what to put in the body, all in the context they actually go in.

if this is possible, i would very much appreciate it. i’ve tried following a few examples, but can’t figure out.

tnx, wanda.

By: pSouper

pSouper — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:20:01 +0000

okay – the simplest of javascript beats me (a mental block of the syntax i guess)
with ref to mey last post on including tweets that include a #hashtag or @username would be simple search…

new JsonP(“http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=” + this.keyword + “&rpp=” + this.count,{

and the results are an object… data['results'][ ][]

but how you loop the results and put them back in the tweets i can’t figure out.

any help on thin one David? anyone?

as always – greatly appreciated.

By: pSouper

pSouper — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:21:31 +0000

Hi David,
great work as ever – would you know of a way to extend this to gather tweets that mention a given @username or #hashtag too?

By: Nathan Sweet

Nathan Sweet — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:08:08 +0000

@David I’m not exactly sure right now, I’m still messing around with it, but TwitterGitter simply doesn’t work, and if I execute it in the DOMready event before the swiff object then the SWF simply doesn’t inject into the document. If I implement it after then it still doesn’t work, but at least the swf is injected into the document. I’m still working on it. I’ll let you know.

By: David Walsh

David Walsh — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:40:39 +0000

@Nathan Sweet: That sounds very weird — what’s happening?