Found out that dooce.com is using the above twitter/jQuery code. The Announcement.

Is anyone else using this code on their website? if so drop me the link.

Ralph - I'm finding that this code doesn't seem to work when the page is refreshed. I can reproduce the problem on your example page. When refreshing, no data is shown. I've seen this with my own code as well. The public timeline requests don't have an API limit, so I don't think that is the problem.

It looks like the problem has to do with the callback. The callback doesn't appear to be correctly named when the request is returned:

Error: jsonp1225377433525 is not defined
Source File: http://twitter.com/status/user_timeline/kindohm.json?count=3&callback=jsonp1225378000592&_=1225378000622
Line: 1

Thoughts?

@mike, @Ralph - I ran into the same issue Mike. Requests of the page cause an error. It takes a while before the problem goes away and you can see the tweets again. I've been looking into how to fix this but having come up with anything. Still working on it though...

I am not sure but I think it's either a bug with jqueries getJSON method and it's substituting the callback=? to the callback method name. Or it's a bug with the Twitter API as the JSON that comes back after jQuery adds the callback method is not valid.

I'll start with submitting a bug with jQuery and see how far I get.

Thanks for finding this bug.

Thanks a lot, I have used this as the basses of my own twitter parser, I thought you might be interested in my "atify" function that I did inspired by your "linkify" function to turn @replies into links to the ated user's account on twitter:

<code>
String.prototype.atify = function() {
return this.replace(/@[\w]+/g, function(m) {
return "<a href='http://www.twitter.com/"+m.replace('@','')+"'>"+m+"</a>";
});
};
</code>

you can chain it with linkify, but it should go AFTER linkify (or else linkify will linkify the links that atify makes!) like so:

<code>
tweet.text.linkify().atify();
</code>

cheers!

Oh wow that's awesome. Thanks, I'll add it in.

@mike @aaron I think twitter fixed thier API finally I am not able to replicate the refresh problem.

I just blogged about a jQuery plugin for displaying Twitter feeds. It's quite useful and if nothing else provides a great example of how jQuery can be used to parse RSS feeds.

http://blarnee.com/wp/a-jquery-and-twitter-plugin

Hi! Using parts of your code on my blog to display my last tweets.
Great work!

Hello,
thank you for the help.
I have a little problem with the function relative_time. My site is in russian language and the grammatical is different.
e.g.
In english you say 1 DAY, 2,3,4,5, etc DAYS
but in russian is so:
1 ДЕНЬ (DEN')
2,3,4 ДНЯ (DNIA)
5 and > ДНЕЙ (DNEI)

For minutes, months, and years is the same.
How can i fix it?
Regards

A friend of my sent me a link to this post, but copy-pasting the above code did not work for me. I am new to jQuery and all the web thing, but found <a href="http://coda.co.za/blog/2008/10/26/jquery-plugin-for-twitter" rel="nofollow">coda's</a> jquery plugin and <a href="http://jquery-howto.blogspot.com/2009/04/jquery-twitter-api-plugin.html">this article useful</a>.

Ammy pasting the above code is missing two important functions. If you download the source code file you'll see everything.

Wow nice tutorial. I ahve also used twitter api in my application.I am not getting how to do pagination for twitter.Could you help me?

Thanks man great tut you're a life saver. I got it working now, the callback=? part was what I was missing, it didn't work for me with out it.
Is the callback part of the url important or did I probably make a mistake some where else?