How to Add Twitter to the Sidebar
Twitter, an online social networking website, allows you to share 140-character updates (also known as, "tweets") with your friends and followers. Twitter account holders can view these tweets on the Twitter website and by using one of the many desktop and mobile Twitter clients. You can also share your tweets with your website visitors by adding a Twitter sidebar widget to the side of any Web page. You can learn how to add this widget in just a few steps.
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Instructions
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Visit the Twitter Widgets page using your Web browser (see Resources).
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Click the link for "My Website," located under the "Widgets for..." heading.
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Select "Profile Widget." This widget allows you to share your Twitter updates with website visitors.
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Set your preferences for the widget by clicking the corresponding links (Preferences, Appearance, Dimensions) and editing the widget to fit your needs. When you're finished, click the "Finish & Grab Code" button at the bottom of the screen.
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Click inside the code box to highlight the code, then right-click and select "Copy."
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Open your Web page in a text editor--for instance, Notepad, which is built into Windows.
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Paste the code where you'd like the widget to show up on your page.
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Click "File" > "Save" to save the changes you made to your Web page, then upload the new version of the page to your Web server. The next time you visit your page, you'll see a Twitter Profile widget that displays your latest tweets.
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