How to Post Twitter Tags to a Website
You can post all tweets containing specified Twitter tags or "hashtags" to your website by embedding a Twitter search widget. Using Twitter's search widget creation tool you can enter any hashtag you want as well as customize the look and feel of the widget itself. You do not need any special coding skills to do it, and all of the code is automatically and instantly generated by Twitter when you create the hashtag search widget.
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Instructions
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Go to the Twitter homepage and sign in with your Twitter username and password.
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Go to the Twitter Search Widget page at twitter.com/about/resources/widgets/widget_search.
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Type the pound symbol "#" immediately followed by any alphanumeric text (without quotation marks or spaces) in the box labeled "Search Query." Together the pound symbol and the text are called a "Twitter tag" or "hashtag."
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Type a title and caption for your search widget in their respective boxes.
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Click "Preferences" at left and select the preferences you wish to include in your search widget. Beginners may leave the preferences at their defaults. Advanced users may specify whether the widget scrolls tweets or holds them stationary, has a scrollbar or not, or displays tweets one at a time or all at once. You can also specify how many tweets to display and whether avatars, timestamps, hashtags and Top Tweets are displayed.
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Click "Appearance" at left and adjust the search widget colors as desired. To change the color of an element, click inside one of the colored boxes, then click a new color in the color palate that appears.
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Click "Dimensions" at left and customize the size of the widget. To do so, type a width and a height in their respective boxes in terms of pixel count. To set the width to automatically adjust to your website template, click the box labeled "auto width."
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Click "Finish & Grab Code." Copy the code to your clipboard. To do so, click inside the box displaying the code. Hold down "Ctrl" on your keyboard and press "C."
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Paste the code into your website template wherever you would like the search widget to appear.
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