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For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))
Has your Twitter feed stopped working? Switching to their new API

From my inbox...

"Got to keep your wits about you with this internet lark haven't you? Discovered the twitter feeds had disappeared from all my sites! Did you know Twitter had changed their APIs and the old ones no longer work!! Not seen anything about it until now..."

Yes, you do have to keep your wits ;-) Twitter turned off their old API in the middle of this month, and Twitter widgets that used it have simply disappeared. The illustration here shows their replacement in action (3 times over!)

The changes were announced in August 2012 - there's background as to why [here]. In that article, Michael Sippy writes for Twitter:

"Currently, in v1.0 of the Twitter API we allow developers access to certain API endpoints without requiring their applications to authenticate, essentially enabling them to access public information from the Twitter API without us knowing who they are. For example, there are many applications that are pulling data from the Twitter API at very high rates (scraping, bots, etc.) where we only know the IP address of the applications. To prevent malicious use of the Twitter API and gain an understanding of what types of applications are accessing the API in order to evolve it to meet the needs of developers, it's important to have visibility into the activity on the Twitter API and the applications using the platform."

There are further implications - firstly, as developers no longer have the ability to simply drop a feed into the web sites they're developing without some sort of saying who they are, it's no longer possible simply to say "I would like feed X here" without setting something up ahead of time, so that (as stated) Twitter know who you are. That's extra work. And secondly, derived from that but not stated in information above, there's the who question of the control of where valuable social media data goes, and the Twitter folks are taking steps to be more owning and controlling of the data from their databases. Not only are they stopping very high pull rates and learning about the application needs, but they're also opening the way to being far more proactive as to who has what, and perhaps whether it contains advertising messages, or it costs money over and above certain volumes of hits.

A further article (last updated on 7th May this year) - [here] describes how JSON is the sole form of data supported, replacing XML (this is a trend we're seeing with services that other clinets are using) and much more. And the whole thing also looks much more complex.

Cutting to the Quick - My correspondent has a site with a feed of his own Twitter contributions keeping news lively on the front page. And he wants to keep something similar. Well - we had just the same thing on one of our pages. The old page included

  <script src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js"></script>

in the head, and at the position the feed was to display:

  <script> new TWTR.Widget({ version: 2, type: 'profile', rpp: 3, interval:
  6000, width: 200, height: 300, theme: { shell: { background: '#333333',
  color: '#ffffff' }, tweets: { background: '#000000', color: '#ffffff',
  links: '#4aed05' } }, features: { scrollbar: true, loop: false, live:
  false, hashtags: false, timestamp: true, avatars: false, behavior: 'all'
  } }).render().setUser('wellho').start(); </script>


And this code had been cut and pasted from a helper on the Twitter site.

For the new API, I have logged in to Twitter using my wellho account - the one that I want to show on the feed - and selected "settings" followed by "widgets". And I then created a user widget. Which results in the following code to be cut and pasted in place of all of the above:

  <a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/wellho"
  data-widget-id="348380091488808960">Tweets by @wellho</a>
  <script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],
  p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id))
  {js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"
  ;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");
  </script>


Clearly, that ID is my own key from the widget set up tool, and you can't just replace the "wellho" with something else for this to work for your own feed - you need to set up your own widget. But - hopefully - this little article will provide an answer to my correspondent so that he can get the feed, all be it looking a bit different, up and running again easily with - as he hints - so much else going on too!

P.S. This isn't the first time that Twitter have changed their feeds - see [here] for example. And a course that I've taken over that "needs a fresh lick of paint" also had other no-longer-working Twitter feed stuff in it. It can be a bit of a "game" sometimes - our recent upgrade of servers replaced some underlying 10 year old systems with brand new versions, and most of it just worked straight away, whereas some of these supposed "standards we can use" seem much more transient. I have no answer on this, just to reflect on my original correspondent - "Got to keep your wits about you with this internet lark haven't you?"

(written 2013-06-23, updated 2013-06-29)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
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  [165] Implementing an effective site search engine - (2005-01-01)
  [427] The Melksham train - a button is pushed - (2005-08-28)
  [1015] Search engine placement - long term strategy and success - (2006-12-30)
  [1029] Our search engine placement is dropping. - (2007-01-11)
  [1344] Catching up on indexing our resources - (2007-09-10)
  [1793] Which country does a search engine think you are located in? - (2008-09-11)
  [1969] Search Engines. Getting the right pages seen. - (2009-01-01)
  [1971] Telling Google which country your business trades in - (2009-01-02)
  [1982] Cooking bodies and URLs - (2009-01-08)
  [1984] Site24x7 prowls uninvited - (2009-01-10)
  [2000] 2000th article - Remember the background and basics - (2009-01-18)
  [2019] Baby Caleb and Fortune City in your web logs? - (2009-01-31)
  [2045] Does robots.txt actually work? - (2009-02-16)
  [2065] Static mirroring through HTTrack, wget and others - (2009-03-03)
  [2106] Learning to Twitter / what is Twitter? - (2009-03-28)
  [2107] How to tweet automatically from a blog - (2009-03-28)
  [2137] Reaching the right people with your web site - (2009-04-23)
  [2324] What search terms FAIL to bring visitors to our site, when they should? - (2009-08-05)
  [2330] Update - Automatic feeds to Twitter - (2009-08-09)
  [2428] Diluting History - (2009-09-27)
  [2552] Web site traffic - real users, or just noise? - (2009-12-26)
  [2562] Tuning the web site for sailing on through this year - (2010-01-03)
  [2686] Freedom of Information - consideration for web site designers - (2010-03-20)
  [2748] Monitoring the success and traffic of your web site - (2010-05-01)
  [3670] Reading Google Analytics results, based on the relative populations of countries - (2012-03-24)
  [3746] Google Analytics and the new UK Cookie law - (2012-06-02)

G905 - Well House Consultants - Blogging and Blog Administration
  [1] First Jottings - (2004-08-05)
  [6] Blog v Forum - (2004-08-07)
  [18] Wanted: More hours in the day - (2004-08-18)
  [141] Too technical? - (2004-12-05)
  [145] A comment on comments - (2004-12-09)
  [177] Blogs come of age - (2005-01-14)
  [185] Who am I? - (2005-01-21)
  [204] The confidence to allow public comments - (2005-02-06)
  [231] Feedback as lifeblood - (2005-02-28)
  [245] I'm not blogging it - (2005-03-14)
  [359] Chicken soup without the religion - (2005-06-26)
  [390] Moderating wiki, blog, and forum contributions - (2005-07-26)
  [405] Horse's Mouth is a year old - (2005-08-07)
  [410] Reading a news or blog feed (RSS) in your PHP page - (2005-08-12)
  [425] Caching an XML feed - (2005-08-26)
  [508] Comment, please! - (2005-11-28)
  [671] Both ends of the animal - (2006-04-05)
  [876] Making pages clearer - easy Disability Discrimination Act Compliance - (2006-09-23)
  [1000] One Thousand Posts and still going strong - (2006-12-18)
  [1077] In answer to 'am I glad I started a blog' ... - (2007-02-12)
  [1203] A Fresh horse - (2007-05-24)
  [1978] From spam to mod_alias - finding resources - (2009-01-05)
  [2192] Copy writing - allowing for the cut - (2009-05-21)
  [2449] Four aspects - Chamber, Transport, Courses and Hotel - (2009-10-11)
  [2517] Blogging accuracy - open invitation for any corrections - (2009-11-29)
  [2564] Microblogging services - Plurk, Twitter, Jaiku and more - (2010-01-05)
  [2751] Going off at a tangent, for a ramble - (2010-05-04)
  [2823] Where have all the bloggers gone? - (2010-06-24)
  [3016] The legal considerations of your web presence - revisited - (2010-10-26)
  [3163] Twitter - the special use of @ # and http: in tweets - (2011-02-09)
  [3186] How to add a customised twitter feed to your site - (2011-02-27)
  [3208] Links for social media, microblogs and business networking - (2011-03-20)
  [3514] Microblogging - what I should have tweeted in the last 48 hours - (2011-11-10)
  [3759] The five oldest blogs and the horses mouth - (2012-06-09)
  [4000] 9 years, and 4000 articles on - (2013-02-09)
  [4292] The Horse is back! - (2014-09-15)
  [4568] Moderation - and the tendency to over-moderate - (2015-11-02)
  [4714] The technical article feed continues - personal updates more proactive on Facebook now! - (2016-10-30)


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