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Twitter Lists Widget: Embed Your Lists on Your Blog

Source: Mashable!

Nov 03, 2009

Summary

As predicted the Twitter Lists API is causing a fast frenzy amongst Twitter developers anxious to be first to support the new Lists feature. Just this morning we saw Seesmic Desktop release a new version of their application to support Lists, and now there’s news of a brand new widget.

Twitter Lists Widget is a simple widget built by TweetGrid with a big purpose: letting you create a widget to display tweets from your Twitter Lists.

You can grab the standard embed code for a basic version to paste and publish, or masters of Javascript can tweak the code to create a heavily stylized, custom Twitter Lists Widget.

To embed a Twitter Lists Widget on your blog or website, here’s a quick tutorial. Copy the code below, but replace ‘@username/listname’ with the full list name. So if you wanted to embed our Mashable list, you would replace ‘@username/listname’ with ‘@mashable/mashable’. The end result is an automatically updating Mashable Twitter Lists Widget with tweets from all of us at Mashable.

/* widget config */

var jtw_list = ‘@username/listname’;

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