Twitter Feed widget

Overview

Each widget contains two views: the configuration overlay and display mode.

Configuration overlay

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:

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.