Currently, twitter_search_feeds feeds the

  • twitter usertag
  • twitter username and
  • twitter message

into a single output field.
I am working to split them with a theming function, but it would be better if it were fixed within the module.
A similar suggestions was made at #515442: Import and display the source of the Tweet (Import and display the source of the Tweet). It was suggested that the problem could be solved by breaking the twitter_search_feed out of the activity_stream family, so the module can use the original feed xml from search.twitter.com.
However, the original feed still doesn't distinguish the twitter usertag from the twitter username. So making the module standalone would still leave you with output like:

<entry>
 <content type="html">awesome twit</content>
 <name>Whatdoesitwant (Willem)</name>
</entry>

Therefore I think that breaking twitter_search_feeds out of activity_stream -- which seems like a proper idea because activity_stream is user focused and twitter_search_feeds is not (necessarily) -- should be seen as a separate issue. I hope you will consider focusing on splitting up the field string instead, which seems easier to achieve as well.

Comments

pflame’s picture

Hey thanks for your suggestions.

I was thinking about removing dependency with Activity stream. Activity stream module just uses the feeds to get the information, that's why there is a problem with language support also. It requires rewrite of entire module using twitter API.

I will sure work on this and will release a new version.

eggthing’s picture

Yes, I second this flexibility.

sachbearbeiter’s picture

+1