Ok, this is pretty way out there for a feature request and I understand if you won't fix it. But I wasn't able to figure it out myself so I thought I'd try an FR. :)

I have a local community site and I have a Twitter account that goes with it. That account is subscribed to all the local people I could find. I would like to put a block on my site that shows tweets coming in from both me (on that account) and all the people I am following. So it's essentially a "Local Tweets" block.

Any chance of this feature being added or am I essentially asking for a whole 'nother module? :)

Thanks,

Michelle

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xevious commented

This can be done with the News Aggregator module using an RSS feed from search.twitter.com

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@xevious - How? There's no option for it on the advanced search page. Is there some hidden setting I'm missing?

Michelle

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mkogel commented

I have the same request. I am using the twitter account as a community hub so that all followers/followees can see what is happening with the others. I wanted to show "other" tweeds on my Drupal website and used Twitter module.

It does not pull the other tweeds automatically so for now I have a manual work arround it. If someone follows me (this is the first entry point), I follow back immediately and I add their twitter account name to the other twitter accounts using the admin view on drupal.

This way I am showing "other" tweeds. I wished there was an easier way of pulling my "twitter home", which is displayed after logging into twitter, rather than the public display of the account.

Haven't tried it yet but it might be possible to add main user authentication into the Views to pull all the tweeds.

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After 6 months, I doubt this FR is going to be filled unless I come up with a patch and I couldn't figure out the Twitter API last time I tried. I've decided to take an alternate approach and gather all the RSS feeds from the accounts I'm following, including my own, and putting them through Yahoo pipes to merge them together. I'm about a month away from trying it but it seems like it should work.

Michelle

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illmatix commented

This is also a feature i would like. If anyone needs any help i could probably take a look at some things and see what i can mash together.

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illmatix commented

So I looked over the api and figured out how to access the data. But now the issue i'm running in to is adding this to the module.

what I'm unsure about is how its doing the caching. Would I be able to use the same thing that is done in original function and have it cache correctly or is that specific to your own tweets. As for creating the view that should be fairly simple process of duplicating what is done but changing a few variables..

Anyone still interested in this feature and can offer some suggestion that would be grand.

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zzolo commented

I'd like to say +1 to this feature. Personally, I am more of a twitter listener, than talker. But, twitter does not allow to just follow an RSS feed for someone without authentication.

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Leeteq commented

+1

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mlncn commented
Version: 5.x-1.x-dev » 6.x-2.x-dev
Component: Miscellaneous » Code
Priority: Minor » Normal
Issue tags: +Science Collaboration

illmatix - Please post what you've found out about the API here, and maybe together we can add this.

Changing version number-- hoping people care about 6.x now!

benjamin, Agaric Design Collective

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Ok, it's been a bit over a year since I asked for this. I never did try using RSS and pipes and actually totally forgot that I was going to try that. I would really rather have the Twitter module do it directly with the API than mess with that if I can avoid it. So bumping this up again to see if there's any chance of it happening.

Michelle

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visitor82 commented

I'm looking for this feature too so +1. Wish I had the skill to contribute.

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pribeh commented

Bump. I'd be willing to put out a bounty for this if anyone else is interested in programming a submodule for said functionality. Please correct me if I'm wrong Michelle, but you want to retrieve (and display in a block) all the Tweets of the "current" user and that of all the other Twitter users the current user is following on Twitter?

Here's the api for this as far as I can tell:

http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/followers/ids

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michelle
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No, I just wanted to be able to post tweets by the people I was following. But it's been 2.5 years since I asked for this and Twitter has since come out with lists which suit my purpose fine. I don't need this anymore. I'll leave it active since others were interested but don't keep it open for me.

Michelle

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pribeh commented

If anybody is interested I put out a request for someone to build a submodule which provides a similar function to that of the original request made by Michelle in this thread.

http://drupal.org/node/1023380

The objective is to simply display the Tweets of a user's friends (Twitter users that you are following). If the described/desired submodule is built I will post it on Drupal.org and link to it here.

Best,

Thomas

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13rac1 commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Closing per #13.