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15 years ago

Great idea, but I noticed one mistake. The heading in the box is "My Followers", but in fact the avatars shown are the people I follow, not my followers.

I'd prefer it to actualy show my followers than change the heading to "I Follow".

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gxd5 15 years ago

Ah, that was my mistake. I wanted the boxes to be identical. I changed it so that it reads "Following" just like the Twitter box. Thanks so much for spotting that!
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- Daragh 15 years ago
  
  You're welcome!
  
  Could you create an option to show followers instead?
  
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  Eric Reed 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Daragh
  
  You're welcome!
  
  Could you create an option to show followers instead?
  
  I agree, that would be a welcomed addition!
  
  Thanks for the freebie, btw, is this for warriprs only or, can I add this to my Goodies and Deals blog?
  
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  rahmat 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Daragh
  
  You're welcome!
  
  Could you create an option to show followers instead?
  
  I also want to show my followers. I will love this feature if you enable it. Thanks.
  
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entercircleb

15 years ago

Great idea, is this self updating?

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gxd5

15 years ago

Thanks for the replies

@Daragh @rahmat

Thanks for the feedback, I will look at creating one for followers when I get back from training tonight.

@entercircleb

This version is not self updating. I have a self updating version, but it requires SQL server, CRON, and ColdFusion. If you have those things, let me know and I can help you set it up.

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sailorgil

15 years ago

Very nice, and I love the price..

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gxd5

15 years ago

Update! I almost have a working version for displaying your followers. I will try to release it tonight.

Now that I know how to use the Twitter API, I think I will make more apps with it. Are there any requests?

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No quantity limit either

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Jill Carpenter 15 years ago

I just tried popping the code in a widget but it doesn't appear to be working.

Did I miss something? Does it take time to kick in?

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mmoconnor

15 years ago

Originally Posted by gxd5

Update! I almost have a working version for displaying your followers. I will try to release it tonight.

Now that I know how to use the Twitter API, I think I will make more apps with it. Are there any requests?

@sailorgil

No quantity limit either

I would really love a widget that displayed my followers and each pic would link to the URL in my follower's Twitter profile. I think that would be such a great way to say "thank you" to everyone who has chosen to follow me.

There was a widget like this written by a guy who doesn't keep up his blog and it is in use on a few neglected blogs that I have been able to track down but none of the people involved respond to my inquiries. Here is one of them: blogs DOT yain DOT com (You might not be able to get it to load.)

It would be very cool if the widget to enabled me to choose how many followers to display and displayed that many randomly.

Thanks for all your hard work and for your amazing generosity!

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gxd5

15 years ago

Originally Posted by mmoconnor

I would really love a widget that displayed my followers and each pic would link to the URL in my follower's Twitter profile. I think that would be such a great way to say "thank you" to everyone who has chosen to follow me.

There was a widget like this written by a guy who doesn't keep up his blog and it is in use on a few neglected blogs that I have been able to track down but none of the people involved respond to my inquiries. Here is one of them: blogs DOT yain DOT com (You might not be able to get it to load.)

It would be very cool if the widget to enabled me to choose how many followers to display and displayed that many randomly.

Thanks for all your hard work and for your amazing generosity!

I am working on this right now. I couldn't do random images with HTML, but I could do that with Flash or Flex. Maybe that will be the next enhancement. Give me a few, and I'll have follower version up!

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gxd5

15 years ago

@Jill
Hmm.. maybe you didn't paste all the code? Try using CTRL+A then CTRL+C to copy the code.

I tried it for you, and it seemed to work:

http://scroll.tv/test.html

Maybe I should make the text get automatically highlighted when it is generated?

Also, some of the mini-thumbnails are not working right. I will see if the API version can fix that. I am working on finishing the follower version right now, so I will take a look at this after that.

Thanks Jill!

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Jill Carpenter

15 years ago

Originally Posted by gxd5

@Jill
Hmm.. maybe you didn't paste all the code? Try using CTRL+A then CTRL+C to copy the code.

I tried it for you, and it seemed to work:

http://scroll.tv/test.html

Maybe I should make the text get automatically highlighted when it is generated?

Also, some of the mini-thumbnails are not working right. I will see if the API version can fix that. I am working on finishing the follower version right now, so I will take a look at this after that.

Thanks Jill!

Sending you link to blog where I put it (pm). The top is displaying, but not the peeps.

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gxd5

15 years ago

@Jill

Just FYI, I noticed that the two mini-thumbnails that are not working right on the widget are also not displaying on your Following box in Twitter. So, it looks like that is an issue with twitter.

I might be able to fix that on my end with some client side javascript, but I"m not sure I want to start debugging Twitter's code for them

Just wanted to let you know!

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gxd5

15 years ago

Okay, the new widget is done! I call it the Twitter Followers Widget. You can get it here:

Twitter Followers Widget

This widget will display a list of YOUR FOLLOWERS. It is a lot more complicated than the twitter friends widget I made earlier. Here are some notes:

- First, you have to enter your twitter login and password. There is no other way to get the info. NONE OF YOUR INFO IS STORED!!! I don't track it at any point, and as soon as it is used, it disappears. Your info is only used to get your followers. I NEVER STORE YOUR INFO, EVER.

- You can set the following attributes:

*Widget Width -> How wide the widget is

*Display # of Friends -> How many friends do you want to show? Max is 100

*Nofollow links? -> If you select "Yes", then rel="nofollow" is added to the pic links. This may help you to preserve link juice.

*Image Alt Text? -> If you pick "Yes", then an alt tag of the person's name will be added to the image. This makes non-visible images show up better. If you pick "No", there will be no alt text. This makes the widget smaller.

I hope you all enjoy these widgets and find my work valuable useful! Thank you for your suggestions, and please continue to provide comments!

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mmoconnor

15 years ago

Thanks so much! It works great and looks real nice on my blog.

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15 years ago

Very cool!

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gxd5 15 years ago

@mmoconnor @MommyEnterprises

Glad you like it!
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flnz400

15 years ago

Nice work, and thank you!

I like the friends widget, but it seems twitter is slow at updating the "following" when not logged in. No issue on your part obviously, they're just slow. lol

So, the second version links to the tweet profile url listed, not the twitter home page?

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15 years ago

OAuth — An open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.

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gxd5

15 years ago

The second version just displays the followers inside of a div tag. I didn't make it link back to the main profile. It wouldn't be hard to modify. Do you think I should?

Also, regarding open auth, I hadn't thought about integrating that. Thanks for the link!

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wtfdaemon

15 years ago

Pretty sweet stuff, man... works exactly as promised... if you develop/release a more dynamic version, what tech would you use (Flash or equivalent?)?

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gxd5 15 years ago

@WTFDaemon

The next step would definitely require a databae and something like Flex or Ajax. Which is considerably more difficult.

But, if you read this thread, you can see that I built the followers widget based on feedback from users like Daragh, Eric Reed, and MMoconner.

So, if you have good ideas for additional features, let me know!
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- bigwilliestyle 15 years ago
  
  Great set of widgets. Thanks for putting these up, they definitely will help me out.
  
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gxd5

15 years ago

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Thanks! Let me know how it works for you

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Paul Davidson 15 years ago

Hey thanks for that' it looks a great little tool to provide social proof!

I must get my twitter act together before its too late!

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gxd5

15 years ago

@Paul Davidson

Thanks for the feedback! If you have any questions about Twitter, hit me up. I've been fairly successful with it, and I'd be glad to help you get started

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gxd5

15 years ago

***** UPDATE April 07 4:54pm *****

If you are using this widget as a way to say thank you to your followers, or as a way to generate social proof on your web site, it is a good idea to let your followers know about the widget.

So, I added a Retweet feature so that the application can notify your followers when you generate a widget. This way, your followers can find out what a nice person you are for linking to them, and you don't have to toot your own horn.