Twitter BandWagon

[Toni KatVixen]

My thoughts on it was to use to help on SEO traffic and use it as an addition to my blog since some nights my brain just dies with all the thoughts I was thinking of posting. I'm not a big fan of it overall, but when there is a news story about comcast actually doing good customer service due to someone's twitter...well figured it couldn't hurt. =)

Honestly I don't do script/programming.....but I was able to install my tweets on a sidebar of my blog after searching wordpress for the plug in. Now I want more then 1 tweet to show up at time, maybe 5-10 of them and a timestamp. So I need help on the script because I'm just goofing it up and it really isn't my area. These are the links to the info on the plug in :

http://rick.jinlabs.com/code/twitter/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...for-wordpress/

And this is the script that I have :


<li id="Tweets"><?php _e('<h2>Tweets</h2>'); ?>
<ul>
<?php twitter_messages("Toni_KatVixen"); ?>
</ul>
</li>


What do I need to add to show more tweets and timestamps?

I tried putting this and different variations in: ('username', [msgs],[list], [timestamp], ['link'], [hyperlinks], [twitter_users], [encode_utf8]);

But all it does it screw up my blog.

Then a really moronic question to show how text savy I am not (I need an actually keyboard...no patience otherwise).....I'm trying to update my tweet by text message. Honestly I have never messaged anyone without it being a full phone number. I have tried texting 404-04 with a message to update my tweet, but they haven't posted. Does it take time or did I miss something?

[HotwivesOnline]

Toni:

Welcome to the Twitter bandwagon! LOL

I don't have much experience with the plugin you're using, but may I recommend Twitter Tools instead?

http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress

I think it'll do what you're looking for. I tried a lot of different Twitter plugins until I landed on this one. You can put it in your sidebar, and tell it how many tweets you want to display. Plus, you can have it create posts for your tweets, or just one digest post of all your tweets in a day (or not at all). And you can post to Twitter from WordPress (it adds a "Write Tweet" option under the Write menu).

I'm using it on my blog (in the sidebar and digest posts), and I've been pretty happy with it.

Just a thought.

= )

--D.

[Toni KatVixen]

Thanks!

Got pretty much what I wanted with that plugin you suggested, just need to do a few adjustments.

Now if I could get my LoudTwitter to import into my LJ and text update twitter.

Of course, I'm currently ignoring more important things that I should be doing instead of this.

[Toni KatVixen]

Hell, since I cross post to LJ, this plugin may take care of LoudTwitter for me. So here is another big thank you!

[Ms Naughty]

Toni I'll have to follow you Twitter has become my new procrastination tool, although I do use it to promote my blog posts and FTG stuff.

[Fonz]

What the hell is Twitter and what does it do?

[Dutchie79]

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates (otherwise known as tweets) which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

[Toni KatVixen]

Here is a few news stories :

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Ahe...5388404&page=1

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/21/paidcontent/main4279640.shtml?source=search_story

But it helped an American journalist student that got seized in Egypt. He twittered out that he got seized and the university was able to get a hold of the Embassy before he disappeared. They have some of the story here :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

I just want to use to update my blog when traveling and I can't get to my laptop. I will never move away from my true blogging entries. Those help me let off steam.