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Twitter widget update

The twitter widget is one of the most popular widgets for many reasons. That’s why we received many feedbacks about it, asking for new features. Today we are happy to release an updated version of this widget with many improvements.

The first thing you will notice are the small tabs that let you view more than your friends’ timeline. You can now display:

  • your friends’ timeline
  • replies sent to you in the last 100 messages
  • direct messages
  • your own tweets
  • your favorite tweets
  • your followers list

Then, we are introducing actions for tweets. When you move your mouse over a tweet, you are offered four action icons:

  • reply to the author
  • retweet the message, which means that you relay the message to your followers
  • mark the tweet as favorite
  • send a direct message to the author

But that’s not all, there are many other improvements:

  • up to 100 tweets are displayed (used to be 20)
  • replies are highlited in the main timeline
  • the tweet origin is now displayed
  • clicking on a username shows all their their tweets
  • hashtags support
  • and more!

To add this widget, simply click on the “Add content” button, go to “Essential widgets” and click on the Twitter widget. Those of you who already have the widget have nothing to do: the widget is automatically upgraded.

Let us know what you think about it by leaving a comment or by sending a message to @netvibes!

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44 Responses to “Twitter widget update”

  1. #1 | dr.hypercube | March 19th, 2009 at 18:25

    It looks great – well done!

  2. #2 | Jenn | March 19th, 2009 at 18:38

    There’s another great widget ruined by being made larger. Why couldn’t the new menu have been placed inline with the "update" button?

  3. #3 | Orlaith | March 19th, 2009 at 18:44

    Excellent update! Thanks :-)

  4. #4 | Benjamin | March 19th, 2009 at 18:51

    I also have the same issues. I had the Facebook and Twitter gadget in a column and they fit nicely and now I have scrollbars which sucks. You guys made an excellent and compact Facebook widget – can’t you make the Twitter one just as compact? At the moment the character counter, submit button, toolbar and arrows are all one a single line and eat up way too much space. How about moving the submit button and the arrows in a single line. Move the character counter next to the submit button in a shorter format like x/140 and moving the new toolbar thingy to the top-right? Maybe in the future you could just open-source some of these gadgets so others can easily modify them to fit their need. The markup makes it hard to just fix all that with stylish and I don’t really want to start using greasemonkey scripts as well to "fix" netvibes changes

  5. #5 | JetLag | March 19th, 2009 at 18:55

    Luv it! Keep up the great work Guys. I don’t have to leave my netvibes to post on my twitter and since I’m following @netvibes, I can have a live update of netvibes activities right in my personalized environment. So cool.

  6. #6 | hubscubs | March 19th, 2009 at 19:07

    i can’t seem to find the updated widget amongst the 137 different twitter agents on the netvibes ecosystem.

    please post the link to the updated widget

  7. #7 | Jerome | March 19th, 2009 at 19:30

    @hubscubs : Add content button / Essential widgets / Twitter @++

  8. #8 | Darryn | March 19th, 2009 at 20:56

    Thanks for the update.

    One suggestion though – the main thing that stops me from using the Netvibes Twitter tool full time and instead switch over to Twhirl is for replies tracking. Unfortunately tracking the last replies within the last 100 messages won’t help as if you’re away from your computer and would like to check for any replies, they would have come and gone as it doesn’t take long to receive 100 messages.

    Is it not possible to instead change the way the Netvibes Twitter replies work to work like Twhirl’s does – so instead just have that tab work as a live search using a query like search.twitter.com/search… – this searches for all Tweets that make reference of a person – which makes more sense than the standard twitter replies which restrict messages where it starts with the username (this isn’t always the case as you could be directing a message at 2 or more people – other people won’t receive their replies).

    Hope that makes sense :)

  9. #9 | Matthes | March 19th, 2009 at 21:01

    Well done! Ping.fm support would be cool.

  10. #10 | Nicolas | March 19th, 2009 at 21:14

    @Darryn: you can expect another update soon, fixing that issue (however twitter search does not include replies from protected accounts)

  11. #11 | Nata | March 19th, 2009 at 22:27

    I really like the updated, the only complain here is now the tweets take longer to appear and sometimes i have to reload the widget myself to see the new udates.

  12. #12 | Anrkist | March 20th, 2009 at 02:30

    There were only a couple of things I disliked about the previous version and both have been fixed. I can Paste into the window AND see more than 25 Tweets… thank you.

  13. #13 | victoria | March 20th, 2009 at 04:00

    Thank you very much! I was using iGoogle for about a week because I needed better Twitter support, but I came back to find a really great app, so I’m back with Netvibes. Thank you!

  14. #14 | goldpriceblog | March 20th, 2009 at 06:06

    Im using twitter widget for some time and it’s great news that we have update, Thanks

  15. #15 | Benjamin | March 20th, 2009 at 07:10

    I cleaned up the twitter widget for me with a stylish style. I set it to only display 2 items (fixed height). Maybe the netvibes guys can use this as an idea for some streamlining:

    @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

    @-moz-document domain("netvibes.com") {
    .twitter .nv-tabSet > ul.nv-tabList {
    width: 120px !important;
    position: relative !important;
    top: -26px !important;
    }

    .twitter .nv-tabSet > .nv-tabContent {
    position: relative !important;
    top: -26px !important;
    }

    .twitter .nv-tabSet {
    height: 230px !important;
    }

    .twitter {
    height: 230px !important;
    overflow: hidden !important;
    }

    .twitter .characters {
    position: relative !important;
    top: 58px !important;
    }

    .twitter label {
    display: none !important;
    }
    }

  16. #16 | Oncle Tom | March 20th, 2009 at 11:20

    It’s a nice update with a look & feel near TweetDeck (my favourite Twitter Air Client).

    However I see a problem: when I write text and then use the TAB key to switch to the "Publish" button, the focus is given to the first widget of the page. It’s a kind of annoying as I need to use the mouse to definitively click on the "Publish" button.

    It was not behaving like that before. Could we have the previous behavior back?

    Thanks :)

  17. #17 | Khurram | March 20th, 2009 at 12:15

    Excellent post!! Twitter is like a breath of fresh air on the Social Media scene. I have been on it for just a few weeks now and I have met several interesting people. It is a platform to network with people you would like to meet in real life. Check me out!!

    twitter.com/spryka

  18. #18 | Thomas SOUDAZ de blog webmarketing | March 20th, 2009 at 18:14

    It’s, for me, the best web-base twitter widget, I’d rather use twhirl but this widget is very usefull when you are unable to install a software (at work for example).

  19. #19 | California Mortgages | March 22nd, 2009 at 05:33

    There’s no limit to what can be done with twitter.

  20. #20 | Fresno Mortgage | March 22nd, 2009 at 05:35

    Great Widget. Ease of use is what everyones looking for, and this one looks right.

  21. #21 | Twatter | March 25th, 2009 at 17:41

    Twitter is overrated.

  22. #22 | Lakshman | March 25th, 2009 at 18:09

    I am one of the earliest user of and Netvibes twitter widget and continue to use it to date! Good work!!

  23. #23 | Lostincyberspace | March 25th, 2009 at 18:56

    Agree with above poster that THE Twitter widget being dicsussed is hard to find among all the other ones. Someone pls clarify/link

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  25. #25 | Fritjof Andersson | March 25th, 2009 at 19:56

    This is actually just what I want! All the main features are in there, very useful. Big up :)

  26. #26 | Trish | March 25th, 2009 at 21:23

    Just discovered netvibes. Still navagating it but looks great.

  27. #27 | Carsti | March 26th, 2009 at 11:15

    Good combination of space-saving usability! Like it very much.

  28. #28 | Sam | March 26th, 2009 at 14:18

    Don’t use Twitter,tried it once and found it a waste. I am willing to find the value and will try again.

  29. #29 | a_usman | March 26th, 2009 at 17:42

    Wow, it is great addition… Soon I will try it. I hope my readers will like it to know what is am doing in an interactive way.

  30. #30 | dbear | March 27th, 2009 at 05:37

    Great job on the widget. Everything’s there that you need. Maybe you could make a widget that accesses the Twitter Search feature?

  31. #31 | Lenen | March 27th, 2009 at 14:07

    That’s a great addition to Netvibes for sure. The improvements are real improvements, good job!

  32. #32 | survey | March 27th, 2009 at 16:04

    I really like the updated, the only complain here is now the tweets take longer to appear and sometimes i have to reload the widget myself to see the new udates.

  33. #33 | ForexTeacher | March 28th, 2009 at 13:02

    Great job with the info. How did you find it? Please let me know.

  34. #34 | Marlys | March 28th, 2009 at 22:22

    Great improvements! Thanks for the update. The only problem is that sometimes it takes a while to load.

  35. #35 | fedmich | March 30th, 2009 at 02:48

    Great news, its very useful to us :)

  36. #36 | James Dickey | March 31st, 2009 at 13:13

    Love the changes. With this widget and the twitter search widget (nvmodules.typhon.net/nico… I have everything I need to handle all basic Twitter functionality. I still use TweetDeck for advanced filtering, but only do that periodically. The rest of the day this does it for me.

    Thanks so much.

  37. #37 | JT... | April 1st, 2009 at 06:10

    Great widget. Constructive feedback.
    The update window is a bit big. This could be hidden until you actually want to make a tweet. The Send button could be aligned to the right of the text field to save a bit of space.
    Direct messaging can be turned off per user but the widget doesn’t account for this.
    When I do send a direct message it does not revert back to the "What are you doing?" title but stays as "Direct message Name:".

  38. #38 | erich | April 2nd, 2009 at 09:26

    das is mal super

  39. #39 | Alana Moceri | April 3rd, 2009 at 16:28

    love the new twitter widget–much better than actually entering twitter! thanks!

  40. #40 | Websties for sale | April 4th, 2009 at 16:39

    Really nice piece of work with this widget, makes my life much easier this way.

  41. #41 | E.STAINTON | April 6th, 2009 at 01:37

    interesting info i’ve read here. talk to me?!!

    eh dj say hi here when you get here and you too kim and diane!!!!

  42. #42 | Lloyd Sewell | April 12th, 2009 at 17:20

    Great tool

  43. #43 | Chris | April 15th, 2009 at 13:43

    Doesnt work properly anymore.

  44. #44 | arya | April 19th, 2009 at 08:41

    Q Chris, you are right. anyone can give solution?