Twitter Fans (Wordpress Plugin)

Sohail Abid — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:54:59 +0000

I was looking for a plugin that can show my twitter followers in a box very much like Facebook’s fan widget. Found a couple but their presentation was not what I was looking for AND the thing that bothered me most was that they needed both your username and password to work.

I have strong opinion about developing applications that are smart and simple. So I created this plugin. After you activate, it gives you a new widget called Twitter Fans. Just drag n drop it in the sidebar. And set your username (that’s the only required thing). You can leave the rest empty.

Download from official WordPress plugin repository.

And of course, I would highly recommend you to follow me: @SohailAbid

Here is a screenshot of both the administration and how it appears on site:

Twitter Just Made Developers’ Day

Sohail Abid — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:14:23 +0000

Twitter just made four developer-related announcements at the Le Web conference at Paris. Here is a quick overview:

1. Firehose for everyone. AWESOME. Gets applause. (Twitter’s first announcement). #

2. A new place for Twitter developers. Will launch in a few weeks. Lots of nice features. #

3. Move to OAuth. “This is about rate limits and authentication,” @rsarver says “we are going to be adding in a 10x increase in rate limits.” #

3b: API for browser-less apps. #

4. Chirp, Twitter developer conference coming in Spring 2010 http://chirp.twitter.com #

(from @Scobleizer’s live tweets, each update is linked to the original tweet)

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Twitter Fans (Wordpress Plugin)

Twitter Just Made Developers’ Day