Comments on: How To Create a Searchable Tweet Archive with WordPress

By: The Frosty

The Frosty — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:56:31 +0000

Yeah, it’s about time I did this as well.

Now just trying to decide if I want to format my site with multi-site (WordPress 3.0), custom post-type, or an external fresh install.

I’d really like to use the custom post-type option, but I don’t think there is an importer for CPT’s yet, nor would you be able to import new tweets with Twitter Tools to CPT’s (would be awesome though, hey Alex, feature request?).

By: Devin

Devin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:20:06 +0000

I was originally thinking this would be useful to backup tweets, but not much else. Now I’m starting to think about possibilities for innovating the design of it.

For instance, you could do something like this: http://human3rror.com/demos/ipseity/ that puts your tweets in large bold type and has a slider to quickly go through the posts.

Or, since a lot of tweets have links, you could use something like the Facebook function to pull an image from the linked page and part of the text. There’s actually a lot of interesting ways this could be set up.

By: Leland

Leland — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:55:58 +0000

Hey Jeff, thanks for stopping by. I actually follow you (@perishable) on Twitter which is how I got tipped off to Douglas Bowman's tutorial and how I got inspired to make my own tweet archive. Looking forward to see what you can do with it.

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:52:15 +0000

The night before you posted this, I completed my own Tweet Archive. I am working on implementing new features and taking it beyond Bowman's excellent tutorial. You can see it in its current state here.

By: Leland

Leland — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:48:26 +0000

Thanks for the link, looks pretty useful and integrates WordPress directly with Twitter without using any third-party services.

By: Leland

Leland — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:47:43 +0000

Thanks, glad you liked it. I’ll be sure to let you know when that tutorial you’re looking for is published.

By: Leland

Leland — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:47:18 +0000

Yeah, definitely. This is probably just one of many possibilities you can use to integrate tweets into a WP site.

Just have to get the older tweets imported so it’s not so dependent on Twitter anymore.

By: Leland

Leland — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:45:08 +0000

Yeah I’m using Twitter Tools but each tweet is a separate post, not using the “daily digest” feature or anything similar, which might be better to integrate into an original WP blog rather than separating it into it’s own installation.

By: Pierre-Armand Lalonde

Pierre-Armand Lalonde — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:25:47 +0000

You can also use the Twitter Importer from @bradt available here: http://bradt.ca/archives/twitter-importer-for-wordpress/

By: g3niuz

g3niuz — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:57:17 +0000

thanks for this – seems to be useful …
already waiting for your next tut