Twitter Changes – Old Twitter Widgets No Longer Working

For those of you that have Twitter widgets set up on your websites, you may have noticed that they are no longer working correctly. Instead of showing a list of your latest tweets, they are most likely displaying some sort of error message. This issue is due to the fact that Twitter recently removed support for the "application programming interface" (API - an interface set up to allow websites and applications to communicate with Twitter) that was used by all of the old Twitter widgets. There is a fairly simple solution, but it will take a bit of work on your part. You can find some basic instructions explaining how to set up your new Twitter widget within the "Cool Tools" section of this website. … [Read more...]