Gnome Tweets
Gnome on the run's Tweets module for Joomla is a simple module that will grab the public timeline of any Twitter user. Its quite simple and not very flashy on purpose. It cache's a copy of the latest tweets so Twitter isn't overwhelmed, also to help if Twitter is down.
Features
- Easy installation through Control Panel
- Can follow any public Twitter timeline
- Display 1-20 of the latest tweets
- Easy to style
- Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 1.6 compatible
Installation
To install first download the file from here if you have not already. Then log into the administrator and go to the Extensions menu->Install/Uninstall. From this spot you can install the module by clicking Browse and locating the file. Then click Upload and Install. It will install the module by default as disabled in the left position. So you need to go to the Extensions->Module Manager area and locate the new module called 'Tweets Module' and click on the title. Here you can edit the parameters, such as the number of tweets, the user name, and the cache time. Make sure that you enable the module and put it in the module position you desire. Save and view!
Changelog
- 24 Jun, 2010 - Updated to 1.3 - Dropped PHP4 support, rewrote cache logic using simplexml rather than simplepie, created a 1.6 version as well
- 20 Jan, 2010 - Updated to 1.2 - fixed PHP4 support, languages
- 3 Nov, 2009 - Updated to 1.1.3, fixed a bug related to getting feeds when Twitter was down
- 25 July, 2009 - Updated to 1.1.1, fixed a couple small bugs that occurred on certain hosts with strict error reporting, fixed a typo in English translation
- 1 June, 2009 - Updated to 1.1, added new functionalities to the parsing of the tweets such as @reply links, updated code, better cache
