UPDATE: Twitter modified their crossdomain policy, which put an end to the flash fun. In other words, this doesn't work anymore. *sigh*
I wanted a Twitter badge for my site and Twitter is so easy to work with that I decided to whip one up that anyone can use.
The myTweets flash badge displays up to twenty of your public timeline tweets and offers a few customization options via flashVars.
var so = new SWFObject("myTweets.swf", "myTweets", "100%", "100%", "8", "#333333");
so.addVariable("userID", "1905521");
so.addVariable("total", "10");
so.addVariable("timer", "8");
so.addVariable("dateHex", "0xEAEAEA");
so.write("flashcontent");
bgcolor - via the embed
userID - mine is 1905521
total - total number of tweets you want to display, up to 20
timer - time between tweets in seconds
dateHex - color of the date Twittered text
The example above is at http://davecurry.net/myTweets/.
If you'd like to put myTweets on your site, here's a zip of the example.
Update: I've written an AS3 version too. Check out Talking to Twitter via Actionscript 3.0 for more info and source files.
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Great stuff. No FLA for download I suppose :-b
Check out this post. It’s the AS3 version and source files are included!
Your update says twitter changed there cross domain policy. Is there any reference to this you can point to as I’m not sure when this has changed.
No reference necessary. If you’re looking to verify, just go to http://www.twitter.com/crossdomain.xml and view source. What must have at one time said allow-access-from domain=”*” now says allow-access-from domain=”*.twitter.com”
Does it matter when this changed? Or merely that it has?
If you’re using the embed code for a badge hosted on twitter.com, that will still work. But if your SWF is hosted elsewhere for any reason, it will no longer communicate with any script on twitter’s server.
(If I had to guess, I’d say this is a response to countless security violations, and that the server’s been a good deal more stable since they made this decision.)
Your tweets wont load
I made a tweeter miniblog myself in as3 included a tweetpic preview, it does work!
Check it out on http://www.yozomedia.nl/tweetpic older version with text only is http://www.yozomedia.nl/tweet