Display Last Tweet

$.getJSON("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/username.json?callback=?", function(data) {
     $("#twitter").html(data[0].text);
});

12 Responses

1. Jamie says:

   09/04/2009 at 7:12 am

   Love it!

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2. Jamie says:

   09/04/2009 at 7:13 am

   But how can I show the last several tweets?

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3. Andrew Champ says:

   09/14/2009 at 11:23 am

   Add this
   callback=twitterCallback2&count=1
   after this callback=?

   Change the 1 to as many as you’d like.

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   • Andrew Champ says:

     09/14/2009 at 11:28 am

     I mean, replace the callback=? with the first code.

     Reply
4. SubSONiK says:

   10/29/2009 at 6:09 am

   I tried to use the

   callback=twitterCallback2&count=1

   It doesn’t seem to work for some reason…

   $.getJSON("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/boombapgr.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=3", function(data) {
   $("#tweets").html(data[0].text);
   });

   Connecting to Twitter…

   Reply
5. Jack says:

   01/29/2010 at 10:08 am

   Yeah, similar sort of thing, can get the one on it’s own to work, but no more than that…

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6. Josh says:

   05/13/2010 at 12:01 pm

   For those having an issue with more than one item, it’s because you have to put it inside of an array if it’s more than one item.

   Something like:
   instead of:

   (data){
   
   });

   use

   (data){
    for (i = 0; i < item.length; i++) {
               var each = item[i];
   
    }
   }

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7. Jay says:

   05/25/2010 at 10:34 am

   Will Twitter limit the number of jSON requests my server makes? In other words, if my site gets 1000 hits per hour should i be caching the tweet in a database? Or does twitter see it as the client making the request rather than my web server?

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   • Chris Coyier says:

     05/25/2010 at 1:26 pm

     This site does OK without it… but… I probably should be caching. Caching something like this is just a good practice period. Regarding the limits, I’m not sure there is on stuff like just pulling from the timeline. I think it’s stuff like search that is limited. Could be wrong though.

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8. Ryan says:

   07/12/2010 at 10:56 pm

   you can also refer to this site on how to display your latest tweets in twitter. with twitter API.

   http://www.ryscript.co.cc/web/how-to-display-latest-tweets-using-javascript-and-twitter-api/

   thanks..

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9. design web london says:

   08/06/2010 at 4:48 am

   what if i dont want to get tweets from twitter i want to show it from my own mysql database any suggestions ?

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10. Rai Adi Sanjaya says:

    08/24/2010 at 2:22 am

    Nice simple code..
    I gonna use that one..
    Thanks

    Reply