16 Useful jQuery Plugins & Tutorials to Integrate Twitter into Website/Blog
Twitter is one of the most popular and prevailed social network all over the world for communication and discussions online. Twitter is powerful on its own, so to integrate Twitter into website or blog means to make your site even more powerful. Bringing Twitter into your site will help you to attract visitors and advertise your content. It and can also help you gain lots of visitors by stretching your visibility and informing them that you are on Twitter.
The easiest way to integrate Twitter into website is widget created by Tweeter itself. But there is more efficient and fruitful way to integrate Twitter into your website or blog with ease. jQuery plugins give a great line of abilities to develop a huge number of different effects to your projects. Certainly, they are imprescriptible part of nowadays web design.
Using jQuery plugins is a great tool for the mission of integrating Twitter to a bog or website. When Twitter is integrated to a website or blog, visitors are able to find the tweets listed interesting and get interested in following to get more tweets. This is doubtless an effective recourse compared to a simple “follow me on twitter” button.
After ingoing to wide jQuery community, people never stop putting into practice various types of jQuery plugins for their projects because they are so easy to use. So here is the list of twenty jQuery plugins to integrate Twitter into a website or blog without any problems.
jQuery Plugins & Tutorials to Integrate Twitter
A Twitter List Powered Fan Page
Recently, Twitter rolled out a great new feature on their site – lists. You can now create and compile a list of twitter users and make it easier for others to follow all at once. Also, at the same time, they expanded their API to include list management functionality. This allows us to use these new tools to create a widget that flips lists the other way around – a fan page you can put in your sidebar, that allows your visitors to fill in their twitter name and join a specially crafted fan list in your twitter account.
Who-Tweet Button : Fancy jQuery Plugin for Twitter
I took the Topsy retweet button and jQuery-fied it, then added the “Who” part to it using the awesome Topsy API. to create this fancy share count button for your stories on twitter. that’s it! The Who part is about attributing the people who tweet your story by showing their Twitter pictures inside the retweet button. Topsy keeps a complete history about Twitter trackbacks of your links which I utilized in another jQuery plugin and inspired me with this idea.
A jQuery Twitter Ticker
In this tutorial we are going to create a pure jQuery & CSS twitter ticker which utilizes Twitter’s Search API. It will show your or your friends’ latest tweets, and will not require any server side code or databases. As a result, the ticker will be easily included into any web page and easily modified to your likings.
jQuery plugin for Twitter
You can add alternative content to the container element (that you pass to the plugin). This will be replaced by your tweets when the plugin is executed by jQuery. If JavaScript is disabled or the plugin fails, your visitors will still see your alternative content – a good idea therefore would be to include a link to your twitter profile.
Making Our Own Twitter Timeline
Twitter has grown into a real social phenomenon. This is an incredible achievement for such a simple service. But as you know, great ideas are not necessarily complex. This time we are going to create our own twitter-like timeline, where you can view and post your tweets. You can use the code I’ve provided here for all kinds of purposes and be sure that the possibilities are endless.
jQuery LiveTwitter
LiveTwitter is a lightweight, live updating Twitter search plugin for jQuery.
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Beben Koben
January 8, 2011 at 11:50 am
I had one bos, may be of interest too….hihihi :D
http://jquery.malsup.com/twitter/
thanks for lists^^
DesignModo
January 8, 2011 at 1:32 pm
thank you, good job
Joby Joseph
April 11, 2012 at 7:13 am
Here is a jquery plugin which helps to add a twitter follow box widget to any website. The widget looks similar to facebook like box and has various options to customize. Please have a look at the plugin here:
Link: http://jobyj.in/twitter-follow-box-widget/
Demo: http://jobyj.in/twitter-follow-box-widget/#demo
Download: http://jobyj.in/twitter-follow-box-widget/#download
The plugin is under MIT license and any one can use it even for commercial applications.
Brandon
January 9, 2011 at 6:23 pm
well, your collections is awesome and maybe i will try one of this tutorial :)..
aditia
January 10, 2011 at 12:22 am
thanks really useful, thinking to put one on my blog
didim
January 12, 2011 at 8:36 pm
l like it its good post, enjoyed reading about twitter widgets ;)
Ahmad elshawardy
January 27, 2011 at 3:56 pm
thanks for this list there are a lot of tutorials for twitter widgets but you have brought the best one of them,thanks again.
Brett Widmann
March 29, 2011 at 5:11 am
These are a great list of plugins and the tutorial was really helpful! Thank you.
webdesigner
March 14, 2012 at 12:06 am
Great list! here is another one: http://minitwitter.webdevdesigner.com/