As a web developer, I have been tasked with putting up a sidebar on our website that displays a running set of Tweets that I and those I follow have made. I would be happy with the latest 10 to 20 entries, with possibly a scroll bar for more.
For now, I am looking at Javascript possibilities such as can be found at: http://remysharp.com/2007/05/18/add-twitter-to-your-blog-step-by-step/ http://www.webupd8.org/2009/09/create-html-twitter-widget-for-your.html and others. Most of these boil down to using some form of the Twitter API. I can get them to work, but I am not obtaining the desired results. The results seem to be either getting just my Tweets or the Tweets of one or more of those I follow. I would like to get both at the same time, the latest first. Looking at: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-API-Documentation I would think that one of the Timeline methods would get me what I want. For example, Twitter REST API Method: statuses/home_timeline says it "Returns the 20 most recent statuses, including retweets, posted by the authenticating user and that user's friends." Maybe my problem is understanding the difference between a friend and someone I am following? As you can see, I am not an experienced twitterer. Thanks for any help, Danny
