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Old 08-05-2009, 01:25 PM What's happened to the Twitter HTML widget?
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I can't find it anymore! I need to get the code again aswell. All I can find under the widgets section is the Flash one urghhhhh

http://twitter.com/goodies/

Am I looking in the wrong place? Or have the nice people at Twitter just lost their minds?
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Old 08-05-2009, 03:34 PM Re: What's happened to the Twitter HTML widget?
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I still have the code for the simple HTML widget

Just insert your twitter username where it says [INSERT TWITTER PROFILE NAME HERE]

The code is:

Code:
<h2>Recent Tweets</h2>
<ul id="twitter_update_list"></ul>
<a href="http://twitter.com/[INSERT TWITTER PROFILE NAME HERE]" id="twitter-link" style="margin-left: 10px;display:block;padding-bottom:10px;color:#002C4E;">Follow me on Twitter</a>
</ul>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/[INSERT TWITTER PROFILE NAME HERE].json?callback=twitterCallback2&amp;count=5"></script>
and to answer your question, I think that the people at Twitter may have lost there minds.

There must not be enough people that are using it, and people are just going for the looks rather than the fact that you can edit the HTML to your liking.
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Old 08-05-2009, 07:27 PM Re: What's happened to the Twitter HTML widget?
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Thanks! Yeah that's bad to hear. I did manage to Google a part of the Twitter site which had a different type of widget (cant remember if it was HTML)... but it looks NASTY!

Im sure Twitter will come to their senses soon enough
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Old 08-05-2009, 08:21 PM Re: What's happened to the Twitter HTML widget?
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No problem.

Also I agree, Twitter will hopefully realize that anybody who is a web designer/developer who wants to integrate Twitter into their site/application will want to have an almost style-less integration code.
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Old 08-06-2009, 12:58 AM Re: What's happened to the Twitter HTML widget?
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I still have the code for the simple HTML widget

Just insert your twitter username where it says [INSERT TWITTER PROFILE NAME HERE]

The code is:

Code:
<h2>Recent Tweets</h2>
<ul id="twitter_update_list"></ul>
<a href="http://twitter.com/[INSERT TWITTER PROFILE NAME HERE]" id="twitter-link" style="margin-left: 10px;display:block;padding-bottom:10px;color:#002C4E;">Follow me on Twitter</a>
</ul>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/[INSERT TWITTER PROFILE NAME HERE].json?callback=twitterCallback2&amp;count=5"></script>
and to answer your question, I think that the people at Twitter may have lost there minds.

There must not be enough people that are using it, and people are just going for the looks rather than the fact that you can edit the HTML to your liking.

Great job!
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Old 08-06-2009, 12:40 PM Re: What's happened to the Twitter HTML widget?
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Oops I forgot to mention, the bits I needed were the two lines of code that go just above the </body> tag, do you have those?

Thanks
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Old 08-06-2009, 09:18 PM Re: What's happened to the Twitter HTML widget?
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The ones that I gave you ran just fine on my test sites as well. What type of code do you need for above it? JavaScript? If so it is the code that is below the </div>.
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Old 10-17-2009, 07:04 PM Re: What's happened to the Twitter HTML widget?
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This is really annoying that Twitter has done this. For whatever reason they have left the old widgets at http://twitter.com/badges, but removed all reference to them on the main site. Why? Totally illogical and unprofessional, IMO.

And why would they think that there is no need for a simple style-able widget?
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