Hello! After I wrote this to the Twitter-support, I was encouraged to share my finding here in this mailing-list.
During the last two weeks, I was designing a website where I integrated your Twitter profile-widget. I've changed a few parts of the design - and discovered the option to show the Tweet-time "absolute" (something like Saturday, 07-16-2011 1:00 pm) instead of relative (like 5 minutes ago). When I activated the option, I saw that Internet Explorer (Versions 7, 8 and 9) cannot show the tweets anymore. I guess you have discovered this error yet, so you didn't describe the option "dateformat" at the help-sites. After many hours, I was able to identify the reason why IE cannot show the absolute time. Here your original code from "widget.js": var absoluteTime = function(s) { var d = new Date(s); if (browser.ie) { d = Date.parse(s.replace(/( \+)/, ' UTC$1')); } var ampm = ''; var hour = function() { var h = d.getHours(); if (h > 0 && h < 13) { ampm = 'am'; return h; } else if (h < 1) { ampm = 'am'; return 12; } else { ampm = 'pm'; return h - 12; } }(); var minutes = d.getMinutes(); var seconds = d.getSeconds(); function getRest() { var today = new Date(); if (today.getDate() != d.getDate() || today.getYear() != d.getYear() || today.getMonth() != d.getMonth()) { return ' - ' + months[d.getMonth()] + ' ' + d.getDate() + ', ' + d.getFullYear(); } else { return ''; } } return hour + ':' + minutes + ampm + getRest(); }; In the forth line "d = Date.parse(s.replace(/( \+)/, ' UTC$1'));" the time is converted in "milliseconds since 01-01-1970 UTC". The function "getHours" in IE cannot interpret this time-format. So you've got to insert after this line: "var d = new Date(d);" Time is now converted in a format, that the IE-version of "getHours" can understand. The new code looks like this: var absoluteTime = function(s) { var d = new Date(s); if (browser.ie) { var d = Date.parse(s.replace(/( \+)/," UTC$1")); var d = new Date(d); // here I've inserted the new line! } var ampm = ''; var hour = function() { var h = d.getHours(); if (h > 0 && h < 13) { ampm = 'am'; return h; } ..... You don't have to change anything anywhere else in the javascript! The function for showing the relative time works by calculating the time- differences - without getHours, getMinutes etc. Now, every browser, including IE 7, 8 and 9, can show the tweets in the profile-widget with absolute time! I recommend to integrate the option "dateformat" in your "webform" which creates the profile widget. The other widgets could be improved the same way, as I guess they use the same javascript. I hope I could help you improving the Twitter-widget! If my changes are used, it would be nice if you could insert something like "//thanks to Stephan Schorn" in the javascript after the line I changed (If you are allowed to do this). It would be great If my name was somewhere in the sourcecode of Twitter-widgets ;-) Best wishes, Stephan Schorn PS: I'm from Germany, please appologize if I made a linguistic mistake here or there :-) -- Have you visited the Developer Discussions feature on https://dev.twitter.com/discussions yet? Twitter developer links: Documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/docs API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Unsubscribe or change your group membership settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe