jQuery Plugins For Twitter: Web 2.0 Nirvana

Pete Prestipino — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:33:00 GMT

Don't you love it when a plan comes together? In this case our "plan" is to bring you interesting design and development tools and techniques to make you (or your clients) more successful on the Web.

Today, let's look at a few recent jQuery plugins that will help you tap into the overwhelming popularity of... Twitter.

Tweetlink is a very handy jQuery plugin that enables website visitors to select a button or link (using TweetLink) and when clicked, automatically shortens the URL of the current page using bit.ly, sending the user to Twitter with the status box already filled in.

JTwitter is a jQuery API plugin that when given a Twitter username retrieves and returns a JavaScript object with user details such as followers & following counts, full name, homepage URL, etc.

Juitter is a jQuery plugin that is being used actively by quite a few developers. The plugin can show a live "tweet" stream, tweets from or to a user, and tweets containing a specific word. Juitter has support for multiple users, and developers have the option of restricting search by language. And of course, it's fully customizable with a stylesheet. Here's a quick screenshot of how Juitter could look on your Web property:

TweetQuote is another jQuery plugin (combining Twitter's open Search API and a few basic AJAX calls) that pulls the latest Twitter tweets based on search terms for display on a website. Simply change the load parameter to a desired phrase and you're off and running. Users can even add advanced options (everything from refresh rates to animation speeds and language requests) and the styling of their choice. Here's a sample screenshot of the default TweetQuote install using the Tweet search for "Obama":

PRWeb Tweets It - Launches TweetIt

Pete Prestipino — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:43:00 GMT

Online news distribution service PRWeb announced TweetIt, a new add-on service with important social media implications. The service allows customers to automatically share a news release through Twitter at the same time it is distributed through standard PRWeb syndication channels. This is the latest of social media features added by PRWeb to help its clients leverage social messaging.

To share their news through Twitter, PRWeb customers simply include their tweet when uploading their news release. PRWeb then posts the tweet, including a link to the online release, to their Twitter account when the news release is posted. The new service is available immediately with the company's social media visibility package and above. It was unclear in the announcement whether TweetIt would use a PRWeb or Vocus Twitter account or the client's Twitter account, but I think it's safe to assume that the client gets that privilege.

"As the leading online news distribution service, PRWeb has attracted some of the most technologically-savvy customers in the industry who are looking for innovative ways to communicate their news to the world," said Bill Wagner, chief marketing officer of Vocus, Inc. "Recognizing the growing popularity and importance of social media platforms, such as Digg, Twitter and YouTube, TweetIt adds to a stable of features that helps our customers integrate social media into their communications strategy with one easy step."

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jQuery Plugins For Twitter: Web 2.0 Nirvana

PRWeb Tweets It - Launches TweetIt