[twitter-dev] Re: Rendering any given twitter page from a third party URL

2009-03-26 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I'd like to do the relatively simple task of embedding any given person's twitter page on my page, with extra content (person's name, links to other sites, etc...) on the top of the page. The typical way to do this, which works with every other site, is just to use an iframe. However,

[twitter-dev] Re: Rendering any given twitter page from a third party URL

2009-03-26 Thread Adam N
The problem is that we're already getting tens of thousands of requests a day through this thing and if we use the API, that increases our compute/bandwidth/development overhead tremendously. In addition, and just as importantly, is there a demo template to take the API data and template it so

[twitter-dev] Re: Rendering any given twitter page from a third party URL

2009-03-26 Thread Abraham Williams
Not using the API increases Twitters overhead tremendously and makes it that much more likely that Twitter will have performance issues. Bite the bullet and do it properly. On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:13, Adam N arocki...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is that we're already getting tens of

[twitter-dev] Re: Rendering any given twitter page from a third party URL

2009-03-26 Thread Peter Denton
you can easily replicate a twitter page through the api. We basically do that here http://twibs.com/business?business=WholeFoods and could easily show the followers, etc... On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Adam N arocki...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'd like to do the relatively simple task of