Building a better twitter webpart

Here you have a standard RSS webpart with a twitter search query. To spice things up I’ve created a custom XLS stylesheet. Now it also shows photo’s, links and other usefull information.

To use this Twitter webpart

1. Add an RSS webpart to your page
2. Go to www.twitter.com
3. do a search (e.g. #Wortell)
4. in the search result screen, click on ‘RSS Feed for this query’
5. copy the link (e.g. for the search query #wortell you get the rss link: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23wortell
6. edit the webpart and add the link to the RSS-Feed URL in the RSS Properties
7. Copy the following code, and paste it in the ‘XLS Editor’ of the webpart. (download the code)

Note 1: Important!!! when using this webpart in a https environment IE might give some warnings. This is because the pictures used in the webpart come from a different site.

Note 2: With some minor modifications, you can use the dataview webpart instead of the RSS webpart.

Remco van den Berg