Twitter Launches Live Search Widget for Your Website
You can get the widget here. It allows you to enter a search query, along with a catchy title and a caption. Twitter provides a preview so you can customize it to fit your site. Once you have picked the perfect color and size you just click “Finish and grab code”. Paste the code into your site and it will continuously update with new tweets of the chosen search terms.
You can even do more advanced searches using parameters like “OR”. Twitter’s example uses the search string “San Francisco OR @sf OR #sf” to make a live-updating San Francisco Twitter Search widget. You can loop old results if you’re doing a search for something that will have a low volume of tweets, so the widget doesn’t appear to change constantly.
This will definitely be useful for websites keeping track of events and trends. Many third-party developers have made widgets with similar functionality but an official Twitter widget is great.
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