The Twitter feed seen above is a user control content item setup as follows:
User Control class or path:
ws:RSSReader
User Control Parameters:
TwitterHashTag="%23HLDEMO"
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How Does It Work?
Tweets are available from Twitter via RSS, so you can use our RSS user control -- ws: RSSReader -- and the TwitterHashTag parameter to get the tweets you want from Twitter.
More Advanced?
The TwitterHashTag parameter sets the FeedUrl property to "http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?q=" + the TwitterHashTag you specify. One of the cool side effects of this is that you can set the TwitterHashTag variable to be any Twitter query string. Twitter has a query string builder here:
http://search.twitter.com/advanced -- fill in the advanced search form, run the query to make sure it works the way you want, and then grab everything after the "q=" from the URL and paste it in between the quotations of the TwitterHashTag parameter.
Important Notes
If you use the TwitterHashTag parameter, do not also use the FeedUrl parameter.
Here are some other parameters you might be interested in:
NumberToShow - The number of items to show in the list. The default is 5.
ShowHeadline - Whether or not to show the title of the RSS Item. Twitter default is false; other is true.
ShowDescription - Whether or not to show the body of the RSS item. Default is true.
ShowPublicationDate - Whether or not to show the date that the item was published. Default is true.
ShowMoreUrl - Whether or not to show a More URL, i.e., to see more info on another page. Default is true. Only shows if there are more RSS Items than the limit specified in NumberToShow
MoreText - The text to show in the more link. Default is "More News"
MoreUrl - The URL to go to when the user clicks the more link. Empty by default.