Twitter Friends Wordpress plugin gives love to your followers
I was looking around the net for twitter plugins and could not find a widget that displayed your twitter friends and followers. So I made one. It’s currently at revision 1.0 at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-friends/
It is pretty simple right now. You can choose whether you want to display only pictures of your followers or picture, username, and most recent tweet. It also displays your Twitter stats.
I was having trouble with the Twitter API rate limit when making the plugin. The API says you get 100 hits per hour but is seems much lower then that. I made a cache that only hits Twitter every 5 minutes. That should keep you well under the limit and keep your list nice and fresh.
I have included a stylesheet with the plugin that controls the way the widget looks on your website.
I plan to update the widget often, I already have a few things I want to do
- add friends - people I follow. Then combine both friends and followers and make an icon that indicates whether they are following me or I’m following them.
- add an icon for my favorite twitterers and add an icon for private twitterers.
- add tooltips that open more information about the followers
- add the ability to send tweets directly from the widget.
As you can see I have a lot of plans. Feel free to add some ideas.
Oh, yeah, please follow me on twitter - hit6
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13 Responses to Twitter Friends Wordpress plugin gives love to your followers
Love the plug-in. The only issue I have is Twitter Friends has only updated once since I added it two days ago. For some reason the get_followers() function is not executing on a timed basis. As a quick fix I made it execute every time by home page is loaded.
Works great now. Any thoughts?
admin
Yeah, I noticed that too. I would update it by going to the admin section, then going to the setting page for Twitter Followers. That would refresh it. I fixed it and have some other updates soon.
I’ve added posting to twitter directly from the widget, and don’t show followers that have not tweeted in a while.
Cool, looking forward to it. Great job with this plugin. It’s awesome!
Stephanie
Hey! I love this! (Can you do one for facebook friends? ha ha!)
Anyway, there is a modification I’d like to make but don’t know how. I’d like for it to only show my followers and nothing else. Not my pic, not the twitter logo, not my latest. Just “My Wonderful Twitter Followers” then the follower pics and names. How can I do that?
Thanks!
[...] twitter friends - I’m hooked on social media/web 2.0. The ulimate plugin, to me, would be one that displays images of my facebook friends. But since Facebook is so weird about things like that, an enterprising individual has created a plugin that does it for twitter. Now you can show the world how hot your readers are! [...]
[...] twitter friends - I’m hooked on social media/web 2.0. The ulimate plugin, to me, would be one that displays images of my facebook friends. But since Facebook is so weird about things like that, an enterprising individual has created a plugin that does it for twitter. Now you can show the world how hot your readers are! [...]
I have followed the instructions and activated the plug in. When i went to put in my username and password, i get this error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: simplexml_load_string() in /home/content/t/e/d/teddy61174/html/paradox/wp-content/plugins/twitter-friends/twitter_friends.php on line 172
I downloaded this plugin and love it so far, great job
I love this plugin I added it to one of my blogs and had no problems on anothe r I get an error
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: simplexml_load_string() in
Do you know how I can fix this?
Thanks
admin
Wow, lots of comments, I have to get back on this plugin and release some new features…
The simplexml error is caused from the host only having PHP4. Simplexml is a function found in php5+. Most hosts have stopped offering php4 and offer a way to upgrade.
How do you download the plug-in? Wordpress leads you nowhere. I spent searching Word Press 30 mins gave up.
admin
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-friends/
Download link is on the right side of the page… Says “Download”
admin
I think there is a problem with wp.org…bith my plugins are giving 404 error when trying to download. I’ll check it out to find out why
