[Yulwww] Display of "tweets" on/in web pages

[Lovins, Daniel]

Hi Stefan.

You're right that anyone could get into the rss feed once they see the pattern. I copied this hashtag idea from the code4lib conference, where they used something like #c4l2009" as the twitter string, and I guess it was OK for the that specific purpose, but maybe not for yours.  

FWIW, I read something about needing to add hashtags.org as a follower (http://twitter.com/hashtags)  if you want a certain level of functionality, e.g.: http://hashtags.org/tag/yale_libguides

/ Daniel



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From: Kramer, Stefan
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 5:13 PM
To: Lovins, Daniel
Cc: yulwww at mailman.yale.edu
Subject: RE: Display of "tweets" on/in web pages

Hi Daniel,



Your suggestions seems to work, thanks; I tried it in a LibGuide RSS feed box<http://guides.socialsciencelibraries.yale.edu/content.php?pid=18059>, but it seems that that way, really *anyone* can make their message show up in the feed by including that string in their tweet ... I was looking for a way that only the account holder's tweets would show up in the feed.  The tweet in the feed, say that five times real fast... ;-)



Of course, with technology changing so fast to ever shorter expression methods<http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=219519&title=twitter-frenzy>, one wonders how long it will be before we'll need feeds for grunts and vowels instead of the comparatively verbose tweets… ;-)



-- Stefan







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From: Lovins, Daniel
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 14:27
To: Kramer, Stefan; yulwww at mailman.yale.edu
Subject: RE: Display of "tweets" on/in web pages



Stefan.



What if you stuck an RSS feed widget in the selected web page with this kind of content: "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23Yale_Libguides"



Then any time someone tweets and includes the string: "#Yale_Libguides" it will show up on this news feed.



I tried it out here in a section of the yufind site on SharePoint: https://collaborate.library.yale.edu/yufind/Shared%20Documents/libguides_test.aspx which should, I think, be publicly viewable.



Hope that helps.



/ Daniel







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It seems that Twitter might be usable to update more than one webpage (incl. LibGuides) at the same time with short library-newsworthy items, in addition to those items being seen by "followers" - if there was an easy way to get the "tweets" into a library web page.  So far, I haven't seen how ... got as far at "Twitter API for Dummies" (http://twittut.netsensei.nl/?page_id=8).  Am I overlooking the obvious, has anyone @YUL already done this, or is this rather a dumb idea to even attempt?



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 Stefan Kramer

 Social Science Data Librarian

 Yale University

 stefan.kramer at yale.edu

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