Twitter Feed Widget

Overview

The Configure Twitter Feed Widget configuration overlay contains the following:

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.

A preview of the widget’s display, using its current settings, is shown to the right.

When a Twitter Feed widget is shown in a dashboard, tweets are listed in accordance with its current configuration:

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: clicking this button opens the Tweet in its own page in the default web browser.

The list of tweets is updated automatically every 60 seconds.