I do this with a combination of text templates containing HTML and CSS. You can use PHP on a server to take JSON data from the API and place it into the HTML template. Then embed it into a web page and format the tweets with CSS. On the client side you can use Javascript to allow the user to pull in more tweets, and display a count of new tweets since the page was loaded. This gives you the SEO benefit of having the tweets in your original Web page, and the interactive UI with Javascript. What you don't want to do is call the Twitter API directly from Javascript in the web page. That is slower, and the tweets are invisible to Google.
I have an open source framework for this model of tweet display at: http://140dev.com/free-twitter-api-source-code-library/twitter-display/ The documentation page on code architecture will show you how all the steps work together. You can contact me if you have any questions about setting it up. On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Daniel <daniel.faza...@danielfazakas.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > I want to use the Twitter search API and display tweets formatted > according to http://dev.twitter.com/pages/display_guidelines > > How do I go from a tweet in JSON format to the specified format > without having to do the string manipulation myself? Is there a > javascript tool that can do this? > > Thanks > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > -- Adam Green Twitter API Consultant and Trainer http://140dev.com @140dev -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
