Twitter Feed widget
Overview
Each widget contains two views: the configuration overlay and display mode.
Configuration overlay
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The Configure Twitter Feed widget configuration overlay contains the following:
Properties toolbox
Channel: this dropdown field allows you to select a Twitter feed to be displayed in the widget from those represented by the list of currently-configured Twitter channels.
Show Tweets: three options are available at this dropdown:
By account and following: selected by default, this option allows you to specify that only tweets by the selected Twitter account and accounts that it follows are to be displayed in the widget.
By account: this option allows you to specify that only tweets by the selected Twitter account are to be displayed in the widget.
Using search text: this option allows you to specify that tweets matching a Search Keyword are to be displayed in the widget.
Search keyword: this property is shown when Show Tweets is set to “Using search text”. On specifying a value in this field, tweets containing the specified search string will be shown in the widget.
Preview
A preview of the widget’s display, using its current settings, is shown to the right.
Display mode
When a Twitter Feed widget is shown in a dashboard, tweets are listed in accordance with its current configuration:
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For each, the following are shown:
Profile photo
Account name
Twitter username
Date/time of post
Twitter message
Number of retweets
Number of likes
Open post in browser
Selecting this button opens the Tweet in its own page in the default web browser.
The list of tweets is updated automatically every 60 seconds.