Tweet From Webpage - Can It Be Done?

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Hi all,

I have an on-going design project for an internet radio/DJTV site running on wordpress and I am really struggling to find a solution for one feature.

Basically the site has a page just for the DJs, its a dashboard with the sites chatbox and another chat box from the livestream channel.

I want to add a tweet box in there that is linked to the Radio's twitter account so that the DJ's can tweet out about there show as if they were the radio.

(hope that makes sense)

I have tried every twitter plug in for wordpress there is and the closest I have come to succeeding is with twitter tools, tweet from sidebar feature. but it only works when viewed in firefox 4 so is no good after all.

Thats the goal, someway to tweet from the page but through the radios account.

I have searched for days for a solution, I thought about embeding twitter in an iframe but thats no good either. I'm stumped. I imagine its not a feature many people need or want.

Does anybody have any ideas of a way to do this?

Thanks in advance.
#tweet #twitter #webpage #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author dervisis
    Hi! I am a new member from Greece!
    I had the same problem, and with little search I found an interesting plugin about what you want to do. Its name is "twitter badge". You can search it in wordpress plugins page, and it is free and easy to use. I hope I helped in the right direction
    Check this out and good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author JDBradley
    Thanks but no that's not what I mean lol


    imagine there was a box on this site where any member could type out a tweet hit send and it would go out as a tweet from warrior forum.
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  • Profile picture of the author kokopelli
    The WordPress › Tweetable « WordPress Plugins plugin might be what you're looking for:
    Tweet from within WordPress. The plugin adds a dedicated Twitter page where you can browse your friends timeline and post updates. An optional quick-tweet Dashboard widget is available as well.
    Otherwise, I suggest looking at integrating a suitable PHP script into WordPress. You can find scripts at hotscripts.com and codecanyon.net
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  • Profile picture of the author JDBradley
    thanks, but yea I tried that one. it has a tweet from the Wordpress admin dashboard but not way to get that widget on an actual webpage.

    I will investigate those script sites tho thanks.
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    • Profile picture of the author Nanaswhimsy
      I know you used to be able to have your Facebook page feed to the website, maybe another option would be to set that up, then link Facebook page to twitter and then just have them update status on their Facebook page and have it feed to webpage and twitter? Then you can charge them for setting up both?
      Just a thought. Suzanne
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      • Profile picture of the author JDBradley
        Originally Posted by Nanaswhimsy View Post

        I know you used to be able to have your Facebook page feed to the website, maybe another option would be to set that up, then link Facebook page to twitter and then just have them update status on their Facebook page and have it feed to webpage and twitter? Then you can charge them for setting up both?
        Just a thought. Suzanne

        it needs to be so any of the djs, wherever they are logging in from can update the same account, i couldnt pull all of their personal profile feeds to make that solution work.
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        • Profile picture of the author Nochek
          Is this a password protected area you plan on installing this at? Having a direct tweet feed available to the public with your business' name on it may not be the direction you want to go.

          That being said, if you are sure only the DJ's can get access to it, the twitter API really isn't that hard to work with. Upon looking into it, twitter requires a OAuth developer key to do offsite tweets, and there are several good frameworks to look at on their developer's page.
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    • Profile picture of the author Linkie
      Originally Posted by JDBradley View Post

      thanks, but yea I tried that one. it has a tweet from the Wordpress admin dashboard but not way to get that widget on an actual webpage.

      I will investigate those script sites tho thanks.
      i have no problem to tweet from my website...
      i'm using WP-To-Twitter...
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    • Profile picture of the author JDBradley
      Originally Posted by aardanyul View Post

      WordPress › WP Tweet Button « WordPress Plugins

      Thanks BUT no, you miss-understand.

      I want visitors to the site to be able to type a tweet into a box, click send and the tweet goes out on MY twitter acount. as if i had tweeted it.
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  • Profile picture of the author JDBradley
    Nochek - yes it's a password protected page.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nochek
    Check this out: Simple Twitter Connect

    From what I can tell, not only does it work with the OAuth twitter API (meaning it actually works) but it lets you brand yourself rather than stealing the thunder, and looks pretty simple to integrate and set up.

    Some functions that look like you might really like:

    * Users can auto-tweet their comments
    * Auto-tweet new posts
    * Dashboard Twitter Widget

    And those are all in seperate php plugin files, which from a quick glance over have a pretty simple interface. Changing it around to fit into a specific area of wordpress shouldn't be too hard.
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  • Profile picture of the author JDBradley
    @Nochek - Thanks, Yea Ive managed to get a tweet from dashboard enabled, but I am not giving the DJs access to the WP backend and therefore they cant use the WP dashboard. I'm not technically skilled enough yet to know how to take a dashboard widget and turn it into a sidebar widget, I will have to do some more research on that.
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