Update your site slogan with Twitter

Last updated February 9, 2012. Created by psydone on October 2, 2009.
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Themers/Designer - A simple example of the module put to use would be using the twitter_fetch_timeline call to retrieve a users timeline and insert the resulting text into the site_slogan variable.

<?php
$twarray = twitter_fetch_timeline('username');
$site_slogan = $twarray[0][text];
?>

Placing this text nearest the top of a theme page such as page.tpl.php. Will subscribe the site slogan to the 'username's latest tweet posting.

Please note this can/does affect performance. Improvements to the documentation are welcome.

Comments

WSOD

Posted by ccshannon on October 14, 2010 at 7:50pm

Did anyone else try this and get a White Screen of Death?

The function is 'twitter_fetch_user_timeline' NOT 'twitter_fetch_timeline'.

Confused

Posted by becstra on February 23, 2011 at 1:13am

Not sure I understand what this means? What does "Will subscribe the site slogan to the 'username's latest tweet posting." mean exactly?

site slogan is updated with latest tweet

Posted by aenw on August 13, 2011 at 10:10am

I believe it means that the site slogan on your Drupal site will automatically be updated to the latest tweet.

IOW:

$twarray = twitter_fetch_timeline('username');  // get the latest tweet from 'username'
$site_slogan = $twarray[0][text];  // update the site slogan with the tweet

function not found

Posted by isimo on March 18, 2011 at 3:40pm

i get function not found error for both twitter_fetch_user_timeline and twitter_fetch_timeline.
I have the twitter module installed v3. Is there anything else i need to do?
Thanks

ISIMO web developmet

This approach is not wise.

Posted by michaek on September 5, 2011 at 2:35pm

This approach is not wise. Please see #1261704: Add a hook when Tweets are saved at hook_twitter_status_save() for a better approach.