Angus Fox Twitter Profile and Talk Notes
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This document summarizes Angus Fox's talk on building with Twitter APIs. It provides information on embedding timelines and tweets, implementing Twitter cards, and retiring deprecated APIs. The talk demonstrates how to generate embed codes to display tweets and timelines on other sites and add metadata to pages to create Twitter cards that enrich tweets linking to those pages. It also notes upcoming changes to Twitter APIs.
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Angus Fox Twitter Profile and Talk Notes
- 1. Angus Fox Deputy Secretary, Social Developers London Director, Multizone Limited Twitter: @nuxnix This talk draws on information from dev.twitter.com but is in no way endorsed by Twitter Corporation #justsaying
- 4. Estimated date Description Announcement Affected APIs February 6th, 2013 GET Blog post REST API help/configuration Streaming API returns new t.co length February 20th, 2013 t.co links begin to Blog post REST API be generated with Streaming API new length March 5, 2013 Retirement of Blog post @Anywhere API deprecated Deadline @Anywhere API announcement March 5, 2013 Retirement of Deprecation REST API deprecated API announcement Streaming API v1.0. Release of 1.1 Release of 1.1
- 5. The first place to start is at dev.twitter.com Embedded Twitter Embedded Timelines Cards Tweets
- 6. Embeddable timelines make it easy to syndicate any public Twitter timeline to your website with one line of code Lets make one…
- 9. Copy and paste the code into the HTML of your site. <a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%40socde vlon" data-widget- id=”nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn">Tweets about "@socdevlon"</a> <script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.g etElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js .id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widge ts.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs); }}(document,"script","twitter- wjs");</script>
- 11. Twitter cards make it possible for you to attach media experiences to Tweets that link to your content. Simply add a few lines of HTML to your webpages, and users who Tweet links to your content will have a "card" added to the Tweet that’s visible to all of their followers. Lets make a ‘Summary’…
- 12. The default card includes a title, description, 1. Choose the type of thumbnail image, and Twitter account card to implement. attribution. 2. Add the meta-tags to your page and test your markup with the preview tool. 3. Apply to participate by submitting your working example link • Photo Cards are a Tweet sized photo card. • Player Cards are a Tweet sized and related video/audio/media player card. information. Source: dev.twitter.com
- 13. Copy and paste into the <head> of your site. <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary"/> <meta name="twitter:site" content="@multizone"/> <meta name="twitter:creator" content="@nuxnix"/> <meta name="twitter:url" content="http://www.multizone.co.uk/news/blog/155-build- with-twitter-blog-for-the-talk-at-social-developers- london.html"/> <meta name="twitter:title" content="Blog post for the talk at Social Developers London"/> <meta name="twitter:description" content="To build with Twitter, the first place to start is at dev.twitter.com, a walkthrough of Embedded Timelines, Twitter Cards, Embedded Tweets, the Tweet Button and the Follow Button"> <meta name="twitter:image" content="http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/c/4/d/ 8/global_167810392.jpeg"/> http://www.multizone.co.uk/news/blog/155-build-with-twitter-blog- for-the-talk-at-social-developers-london.html
- 15. As a website owner you must opt-in to have cards displayed for your domain, and Twitter must approve the integration. To be considered, please follow these steps: Read the documentation and add the appropriate markup to your domain. Test your markup with thepreview tool Once the markup is implemented, fill out the form and include a link to a representative page containing markup “As we roll out this new feature to users and publishers, we are looking for sites with great content and those that drive active discussion and activity on Twitter. Expect a few weeks for turn- around time. You will receive an email message with the confirmation or rejection notice.”
- 16. Thank you for applying to participate in Twitter Cards. We will review your application and get back to you in 5- 10 business days.
- 17. The Embedded Tweet feature allows websites to generate copy and paste-able HTML markup to render a Tweet on any third-party website. This markup presents a Tweet in an attractive (and display guidelines compliant) way, and automatically sets up Web Intents so that viewers of the Tweet may retweet, reply, favorite, and follow easily from the rendered view. Lets make one…
- 19. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Join us tonight at our first event of 2013 - six talks about social dev, plus pizza and networking! Tickets on sale at <a href="http://t.co/j8PTPajI" title="http://ht.ly/1QXqjI">ht.ly/1QXqjI</a></p> — SocialDevelopersLDN (@SocDevLon) <a href="https://twitter.com/SocDevLon/status/288 939393509638144" data-datetime="2013-01- 09T09:24:54+00:00">January 9, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"
- 21. Presentations are available from Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/nuxnix/