Twitter Feeds

You can insert a Twitter Feed in a page which will display the most recent tweets of a specified Twitter account.

The following instructions provide information on how to insert a Twitter Feed onto a page via Tridion.

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Creating the Twitter Feed Component

Before adding a Twitter Feed to your page, you must create a Twitter Feed component.

Open

In the Building Blocks folder of your respective website, click New Component (highlighted in blue above) in the Create tab (highlighted in yellow above) of the navigation bar.

You will be taken to a new page for creating the component (shown below):

Open

1. Enter an appropriate Name for your component.

2. Choose Twitter Feed from the Schema drop down menu (highlighted in yellow above).

3. Twitter Feed: Enter the Twitter account name (the handle, not the full name).

   1. You do not need to add the "@."

4. Enter the number of tweets you'd like to display in the feed.

5. Save and Close the component (highlighted in blue above).

Once you have saved the component, you are ready to add the feed to a page.

Adding the Twitter Feed Component to a Page

After creating the Twitter Feed component, you can add the component to a page.

1. Navigate in the Root folder to the page you'd like to add a Twitter Feed to and double-click to open the page.

2. In the window that opens, click the Component Presentations tab.

3. Click Insert at the bottom left of the page window.

4. Browse to the Twitter Feed component you created and click to select it.

5. From the Component Template dropdown, select the Twitter Feed template.

6. Click the Insert button at the bottom right, then the Close button.

7. Save and Close the page, then you are ready to publish.

Example of a Twitter Feed on a Page

The below screenshot shows a Twitter Feed, as it appears on a page (highlighted in yellow below):