Hey guys, never used a RSS feed before. A client is asking for a tweeter feed, should I use the RD Simple RSS feed? Cheers.

Hi MadRod. Unfortunately, Twitter stopped RSS feed support last week. They have an updated API, but I have not looked into it yet to see if there is a way to pull feeds again.

hummm I see. But that would have the way? Thanks Red Dog. Cheers. Miguel

feeds are pulled from json only now. I've been working on a twitter wall, for ios 6

@Kittsy "a Twitter wall" That sounds interesting.

it'll be better when I get the facebook side of it working

I am no great tweeter, but does the twitter widget offer a decent alternative to RSS? https://twitter.com/settings/widgets

i'd say so at least you can retweet

I've seen a php script that could convert the json to rss. If I figure it out anytime soon I'll post the tutorial. I need it for myself so I dont mind sharing at all. @Kittsy good luck with that! Sounds interesting OFF topic .. Is your latest favorites plugin close to being on the market?! :)

@mysps The favourites plugin was submitted weeks ago. A few have bought early seems to be working pretty well. Just a waiting game

I thought the new API was using json to deliver "Embedded timelines". You have to create a widget from your twitter account - no RSS. You can respond directly inline if you are logged into a browser (not likely on mobile inside an app) But I'd imagine that using the HTML plugin and adding the widget to the source code would do the trick. Haven't tried it just yet. More info here: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/overview And here: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/embedded-timelines

Well I can definately populate a tableview with twitters json api

Hey Kittsy, Is that a new twitter plugin I'm hearing about :)))

Hey @MadRod, You can embed a twitter timeline into an HTML page easily enough, although there are problems getting it to work correctly. Main problem I had was that it didn't resize to accommodate the width or height dynamically, in other words itll fit into your screen nicely in portrait, but rotate to landscape and its too narrow, and the bottom of the timeline goes off the page. A workaround is to place the twitter timeline code in a div which gets hidden on rotation to landscape, and a 'please rotate back to portrait' div gets shown instead. Also there seems to be a bug where you can scroll ok, but click on a link and go back to the timeline and scrolling stops working, or to. Be exact you can scroll but only using two fingers, not one. I reached out to Twitter a few weeks back about this, but no reply as of yet. Final problem is that you can define a unique height, but it won't resize to each device, so again created 3 duplicate timelines, one for iPhone, iPhone 5 and ipad, each with a different height, and used css to display the correct height version. So in short you can put a new twitter timeline in your buzztouch app, but it's reliant on twitters javascript code which is still buggy at the moment for use in a mobile app.

Here is a solution to the Twitter API and RSS. On Github I've found a script by thomasyung. It converts the Twitter JSON to RSS. https://github.com/thomasyung/twitter-json-to-rss 1. Sign up as a developer over at dev.twitter.com and get your app keys. 2. Download the script 3. Open the twitter_auth.php fill in the details 4. Upload to your web server. It must be able to handle PHP 5.3+ I have an old Hostgator account and because my account isnt the latest (after May 30th) I have to add an .htaccess file so that it will handle the script which requires PHP 5.3+ # Use PHP 5.3 AddType application/x-httpd-php53 .php 5. Us the RD Simple RSS or whatever RSS plugin that you have and add this url to your Buzztouch Control panel: http://[server_name]/twitter_json_to_rss.php?screen_name=[user_name] The xml elements will be: item, title, description, link Good luck!

FYI for those interested I also found this link to generate a twitter feed: http://www.twitter-rss.com Plugged into my RSS test feed successfully.

@FromtheNE - thats a great find! However, I like to have control over my feed just in case that website is ever removed or suspended one day. Also, using my API and twitter info, I feel a tad bit better :) Its definitely much easier than I posted especially if you don't have webspace! Thanks

Yes thanks mysps definitely concerned over removal of that site, Twitter seems to be cracking down lately on RSS. Thanks for sharing the JSON solution, will check it out.

hmmm... seems simple enough to follow, only an idiot could get it wrong, right? My feed looks like this http://<server>/twitter/twitter_json_to_rss.php?screen_name=<name of feed>

I had the same problem, does your host have: 4.PHP 5.3+

I'm not such an idiot after all! my host was on 5.2, i just updated it to 5.4 :o) awesome find and explained well, thankyou