Here is How to Find Your Twitter RSS Feed and Your Twitter Favorites RSS Feed

Here is How to Find Your Twitter RSS Feed and Your Twitter Favorites RSS Feed

Once again, there are major changes in the Twitter galaxy! Twitter isn’t making finding your Twitter RSS Feed easy. In fact, Twitter support makes finding your Twitter RSS Feed even more challenging than what it really is.

First, before we provide you with the simple fix, let’s explain the problem. In the past, Twitter allowed you to “grab” your RSS Feed from your Twitter profile page, now the RSS Feed logo has been removed. So if you wanted to use your Twitter Feed for other pages such as your Blog, your out of luck, it can’t be found anymore.

Twitter says;

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Twitter recently stopped supporting basic authentication over RSS in favor of OAuth, an authentication method that lets you use applications without giving them your password. You can read more about the change here: http://blog.twitter.com/2010/08/twitter-applications-and-oauth.html

Because of this change, we no longer directly support RSS feeds on Twitter.

• If you would like to continue using RSS feeds from Twitter accounts, we recommend using a 3rd-party service.
• Or, if you are comfortable with coding, use our developer resources to retrieve statuses.
• The following link provides information about how to use OAuth to retrieve statuses:http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/home_timeline
• Please note that you will first need to sign up for a Twitter application if you would like to use the method linked above. You can sign up for an app here:http://dev.twitter.com/apps/new

Source – Twitter Help Center

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How to Add a Twitter Profile Widget to Blogger

If you use Twitter then you are going to want to let your Blogger readers know about it. One effective way to show your Twitter updates on Blogger is to add a Twitter profile widget to the sidebar of your blog.
This widget is quite a bit more fancy than the current Twitter Updates Widget available through Blogger
On the minus side the widget may slow your blog down so test it out first if fast loading time is crucial to you.


How to Insert a Twitter Profile Widget into Blogger

1. Go to Twitter Widgets and sign in
   
   
   
2. Choose Profile Widget and you will be taken to a default profile widget page where you can customize your Twitter widget according to your needs.
   
   
3. Choose Settings and make sure that your username is correct
   
   
4. Choose Appearance and make any custom color changes you need to so that the widget will blend into your blog. At the very least you will need to change the shell background and the links colors to suit your blog
   
   
5. Choose Dimensions and change the sizing of the widget if it is too large to fit into your Blogger sidebar. The default setting is 250x300
   
   
6. Click on Test Your Settings to ensure your new widget looks the way you want it to
   
   
7. Click the Finish and Grab Code button
   
   
8. Copy the code by right click the mouse in the code box and choosing Select All. Right click again and choose Copy
   
   
9. Sign in to Blogger. From the Dashboard go to Layout | Page Elements
   
   
10. In the sidebar choose Add a Gadget and then a HTML/Javascript widget
    
    
11. Paste the Twitter code into the gadget content box and click Save
    
    
12. Your Twitter Profile Widget will now be showing in your Blogger sidebar so click on View Blog to admire it
    

In this Blogger tutorial I have showed you how to add a Twitter Profile Widget to the sidebar of your Blogger blog (Blogspot blog). This Twitter widget will encourage your blog readers to visit your Twitter Profile and with luck you may get some new Twitter followers out of it.

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How to Add a Twitter Updates Widget to Blogger

If you are a regular Twitter user and have a bunch of followers you might want to add a Twitter Updates widget to Blogger (Blogspot). In today's tutorial I will show you the easy way to add a Twitter Updates widget to Blogger (Blogspot). It is fairly straightforward to add this Twitter Updates widget to Blogger so please don't be put off if you are a Blogger beginner as you can have this widget up and running in no time.



How to Add a Twitter Updates Gadget to Blogger
There are several methods of adding a Twitter Updates widget to Blogger which I will be discussing over the next few posts. Today I will start with the easiest method by far. This Twitter widget won't slow down your blog loading time particularly but I suggest as with all HTML widgets that you place it near the bottom of your column of gadgets and limit the number of updates shown.

This Twitter Updates widget will provide a basic widget only and is fine if you aren't too bothered about styling. The widget uses the styling from your blog based on the Blogger template you are using but unfortunately there is no way to modify its appearance at the moment. If you want something a little more fancy keep an eye out for my future posts about Twitter Updates widgets.

1. Log in to Blogger if you are not already logged in
   
2. Go to Layout > Page Elements
   
3. Click Add a Gadget in the Blogger sidebar
   
4. Click on More Gadgets to the left and choose the Twitter Updates widget. Blogger may change this so if you don't find it there try looking in Featured or Popular.
   
5. Enter your Twitter name (usually your blog name)
   
6. Choose the number of updates to display. By default this is set to 5
   
7. Uncheck display link to your Twitter page if you do not want visitors to go to your Twitter page for some reason otherwise leave it as is.
   
8. Click Update to Preview any changes and then Save
   
9. Use Blogger's drag and drop feature to reposition your Twitter gadget in the desired location in sidebar or footer of your Blogger blog. Save any changes
   
10. Click View Blog to admire your new Twitter Updates widget

In today's tutorial I have shown you how easy it is to add a Twitter Updates widget to your Blogger blog (Blogspot blog). The Twitter Updates widget will display your latest Twitter tweets on your blog. The disadvantage of this third party Twitter Updates widget is that it has basic styling only and no way to modify it. On the plus side it loads fast and is likely to be trouble free. I will be writing more about Twitter updates widgets in the next couple of posts so keep an eye out. Enjoy!

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