Place a live twitter feed into your publication. Twitter feeds are a fantastic way to engage your readers through the use of social media.


Load from Twitter Code – This is an automatic way to generate your Twitter Widget (otherwise you will need to fill out the fields manually).

  1. Go to https://twitter.com/settings/widgets and login to your account
  2. Click on the Widgets tab in the left hand column
  3. If you are adding a new Widget select ‘Create New’ If you are getting a code for a Widget already made select ‘edit’ and copy the code down the bottom of the page
  4. If you are creating a new Widget, enter the details required and click‘Create Widget’
  5. The code will now appear down the bottom of the page


Alternatively, you can manually add each detail into the properties field.

  • Type of Twitter Widget –
    • ‘Profile’: Display your most recent Twitter updates on any webpage.
    • ‘Search’: Displays search results in real time. Ideal for live events, broadcastings, conferences, TV Shows, or even just keeping up with the news.
    • ‘Faves’: Show off your favourite tweets in real time. This widget will pull in the tweets you have starred as favourites.
    • ‘List’: Put your favourite twitter people into a list. This will then show in a widget.
  • Twitter User Name – Please enter the owner of the twitter feeds username.
  • Search Term (For Search feeds only) – Enter in the name of the Search Term.
  • Title – Enter in the title of the Widget (E.g. Realview Digital).
  • Subject – Enter in the caption for the Widget (E.g. Online Publishing).
  • Twitter List Name – (For List only) Enter in List Name for feed of your twitter lists.
  • Poll For New Results? –
    • ‘True’: This will automatically update the feed to show new posts.
    • ‘False’: This will only show the posts available at the time of creating the Twitter Feed within the interactivity page.
  • Include Scrollbar? –
    • ‘True’: This will allow users to scroll back to previous tweets.
    • ‘False’: This will allow users to only view recent tweets.
  • Behaviour – Timed intervals or load all tweets? For timed intervals type into this field ‘timed’. To load all tweets type into this field ‘all’.
  • Number of Tweets – This field represents the number of tweets that will appear at once in the Twitter Feed Widget.
  • Loop Results? –
    • ‘True’: If there are no new tweets, the old tweets will recirculate until there are new tweets.
    • ‘False’: When there are no new tweets, the feed will stay on the last tweet until there are new ones.
  • Tweet Interval – Intervals are in seconds and will be how long this takes until the next tweet arrives.
  • Shell Background – Place in the hex code colour you would like the border background to be. Shell Text – Place in the hex code colour that you would like the border text to be.
  • Tweet Background – Place in the hex code colour that you would like the tweet background to be.
  • Tweet Text – Place in the hex code colour that you would like the tweet text to be.
  • Inks – Place in the hex code colour of what you would like the tweet links to be.
  • Width and Height – This is measured by the percentage of the page size (The page is 100% and if you would like this to cover a third, you would type in 33.3%).
  • AutoWidth –
    • ‘True’: This will enable autowidth. However, you will still need to enter the height manually.
    • 'False’: You will need to enter both the Width and Height fields for the twitter feed box.


Note: Do not include the # when entering the hex code.