Comments on: Twitter widget that streams multiple accounts

By: Mark C

Mark C — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:36:24 +0000

Hi Ronak,
was using the plugin for a while there but had to stop using it. I had it set to pull tweets from four users from specific hashtags. Tweets seemed to ‘expire’ randomly, so if tweets weren’t posted for a few days the widget would appear empty. Is there any reason for this, and can it be resolved?

I want to start using the plugin again as apart from this it’s excellent.
Cheers.

By: Andrew Larimer

Andrew Larimer — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:17:49 +0000

Okay, I figured it out. Or at least, got it working. Thanks a bunch, this is a great piece of work!

By: Ronak

Ronak — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:13:57 +0000

That directory needs to be created manually otherwise there is no place for the cache to be saved.

By: Andrew Larimer

Andrew Larimer — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:34:01 +0000

Ronak,

No new directory was created, but maybe the cache just needed to expire? In any case, the message has changed now to “Tweets cannot be decoded from feed.”

Andrew

By: Ronak

Ronak — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:27:23 +0000

Andrew,

In the Config.php there is a parameter for the name of the directory where the cached tweets will be saved. Was this created in the directory where you installed the widget?

By: Andrew Larimer

Andrew Larimer — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:06:56 +0000

Hi there,

Very excited to use this plugin… been looking for something to handle multiple twitter accounts for awhile now. I have PEAR and Cache_Lite installed, and installed the widget (and was getting error messages, so I created the Cache folder and moved the Cache_Lite files into that), but now I’m getting the message: Cannot save to cache.

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Thanks again for the work.

By: mark c

mark c — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:48:46 +0000

Thanks for the quick update Ronak. Very impressed!

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RonakPatel.Net » Blog Archive » Twitter Widget 1.2.3 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:36:11 +0000

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By: Ronak

Ronak — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:26:26 +0000

Mark,

Thanks for pointing that out. It’s been fixed. Upgrade instructions are in the post.

By: mark c

mark c — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:15:14 +0000

Hi,
Love the plugin- clear installation instructions, and works great. Just one problem- apostrophes (‘) are not coming through properly in the widget. They’re being rendered as \’ which is a bit weird.
Any thoughts on how to fix this? Thanks.