Twitter Smartlet

Why isn't this one on the homepage anymore?

A small but irritating bug in the cookie handling is that the last seen tweet in the twitter window is not remembered. Going back to the page again showed older tweets and the tweets seen previously would op up again.

This can be fixed quite easily by updating the Script item in the Smartlet:

Old code:

var origCaption = caption.html();
var cookieAge = parseInt(sml.get('cookieAge'));
if(cookieAge != 0){
	if($j.cookie){
	var cookieName =  settings.guid + '.id';
	var lastTweet = $j.cookie(cookieName);

New code:

var origCaption = caption.html(), lastTweet;
var cookieAge = parseInt(sml.get('cookieAge'));
if(cookieAge != 0){
	if($j.cookie){
	var cookieName =  settings.guid + '.id';
	lastTweet = $j.cookie(cookieName);

A new version of the Twitter Smartlet will be posted soon, but this may help in the meantime....

Hmm according the homepage there is a comment here from Marc van Neerven. I don't see a comment here. Testing if i can see comments I add myself.

Nope, no comments anymore after reloading the page.

Small update: data retrieved by the Twitter search query has to be encoded for presentation:

Replace the following code in the Format() translation:

scope.format.field(text)

... with:

string.xmlencode(scope.format.field(text), Ampersand))

I get an 'operation has timed out' error (even for the examples). however if I browse to the uri's it get an immediate response.

What could be the problem here?

An issue has been reported that expanding of hyperlinks fails when immediately followed by '.' or ','.

To fix this issue, replace the first regular expression in the Expand() translation with the following regexp:

((ftp|http|https):\/\/(\w+:{0,1}\w*@)?([^\.,]|[\.,]\S)+(:[0-9]+)?(\/|\/([\w#!:.?+=&%@!\-\/]))?)