Why Twitter Feed isn't loading into my Website? - html

Question

I am creating a Website using HTML5 and CSS3 myself. I am using jquery.tweet.js javascript file for showing my twitter feed into my website. And, I added below jQuery code into my body element:
<script>
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
$('#latest-tweets').tweet({
username: 'sumonbdinfo',
count:1,
loading_text: "loading tweets..."
});
});
</script>
But, in my website is only now showing "loading tweets..." text, not showing my Twitter Feeds anymore.
Also, I added the jquery.tweet.js file into my head element and added jquery into my head element. But, still it's not showing on my website.
Should I put the above code into my head element of my website or I just added it in right place?
I pasted below the jquery.tweet.js file what I'm using for showing tweets on my website.
(function(a){a.fn.tweet=function(c){var n=a.extend({username:null,list:null,favorites:false,query:null,avatar_size:null,count:3,fetch:null,page:1,retweets:true,intro_text:null,outro_text:null,join_text:null,auto_join_text_default:"i said,",auto_join_text_ed:"i",auto_join_text_ing:"i am",auto_join_text_reply:"i replied to",auto_join_text_url:"i was looking at",loading_text:null,refresh_interval:null,twitter_url:"twitter.com",twitter_api_url:"api.twitter.com",twitter_search_url:"search.twitter.com",template:"{avatar}{time}{join}{text}",comparator:function(p,o){return o.tweet_time-p.tweet_time},filter:function(o){return true}},c);var b=/\b((?:[a-z][\w-]+:(?:\/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}\/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’]))/gi;function l(q,r){if(typeof q==="string"){var o=q;for(var p in r){var s=r[p];o=o.replace(new RegExp("{"+p+"}","g"),s===null?"":s)}return o}else{return q(r)}}a.extend({tweet:{t:l}});function f(p,o){return function(){var q=[];this.each(function(){q.push(this.replace(p,o))});return a(q)}}function k(o){return o.replace(/</g,"<").replace(/>/g,"^>")}a.fn.extend({linkUser:f(/(^|[\W])#(\w+)/gi,'$1#$2'),linkHash:f(/(?:^| )[\#]+([\w\u00c0-\u00d6\u00d8-\u00f6\u00f8-\u00ff\u0600-\u06ff]+)/gi,' #$1'),capAwesome:f(/\b(awesome)\b/gi,'<span class="awesome">$1</span>'),capEpic:f(/\b(epic)\b/gi,'<span class="epic">$1</span>'),makeHeart:f(/(<)+[3]/gi,"<tt class='heart'>♥</tt>")});function e(p,o){return p.replace(b,function(s){var r=(/^[a-z]+:/i).test(s)?s:"http://"+s;var u=s;for(var t=0;t<o.length;++t){var q=o[t];if(q.url==r&&q.expanded_url){r=q.expanded_url;u=q.display_url;break}}return''+k(u)+""})}function j(o){return Date.parse(o.replace(/^([a-z]{3})( [a-z]{3} \d\d?)(.*)( \d{4})$/i,"$1,$2$4$3"))}function h(o){var q=(arguments.length>1)?arguments[1]:new Date();var s=parseInt((q.getTime()-o)/1000,10);var p="";if(s<1){p="just now"}else{if(s<60){p=s+" seconds ago"}else{if(s<120){p="a minute ago"}else{if(s<(45*60)){p=(parseInt(s/60,10)).toString()+" minutes ago"}else{if(s<(2*60*60)){p="an hour ago"}else{if(s<(24*60*60)){p=""+(parseInt(s/3600,10)).toString()+" hours ago"}else{if(s<(48*60*60)){p="a day ago"}else{p=(parseInt(s/86400,10)).toString()+" days ago"}}}}}}}return"about "+p}function g(o){if(o.match(/^(#([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)) .*/i)){return n.auto_join_text_reply}else{if(o.match(b)){return n.auto_join_text_url}else{if(o.match(/^((\w+ed)|just) .*/im)){return n.auto_join_text_ed}else{if(o.match(/^(\w*ing) .*/i)){return n.auto_join_text_ing}else{return n.auto_join_text_default}}}}}function d(){var p=("https:"==document.location.protocol?"https:":"http:");var o=(n.fetch===null)?n.count:n.fetch;var r="&include_entities=1&callback=?";if(n.list){return p+"//"+n.twitter_api_url+"/1/"+n.username[0]+"/lists/"+n.list+"/statuses.json?page="+n.page+"&per_page="+o+r}else{if(n.favorites){return p+"//"+n.twitter_api_url+"/favorites/"+n.username[0]+".json?page="+n.page+"&count="+o+r}else{if(n.query===null&&n.username.length==1){return p+"//"+n.twitter_api_url+"/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name="+n.username[0]+"&count="+o+(n.retweets?"&include_rts=1":"")+"&page="+n.page+r}else{var q=(n.query||"from:"+n.username.join(" OR from:"));return p+"//"+n.twitter_search_url+"/search.json?&q="+encodeURIComponent(q)+"&rpp="+o+"&page="+n.page+r}}}}function m(o,p){if(p){return("user" in o)?o.user.profile_image_url_https:m(o,false).replace(/^http:\/\/[a-z0-9]{1,3}\.twimg\.com\//,"https://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/")}else{return o.profile_image_url||o.user.profile_image_url}}function i(p){var q={};q.item=p;q.source=p.source;q.screen_name=p.from_user||p.user.screen_name;q.avatar_size=n.avatar_size;q.avatar_url=m(p,(document.location.protocol==="https:"));q.retweet=typeof(p.retweeted_status)!="undefined";q.tweet_time=j(p.created_at);q.join_text=n.join_text=="auto"?g(p.text):n.join_text;q.tweet_id=p.id_str;q.twitter_base="http://"+n.twitter_url+"/";q.user_url=q.twitter_base+q.screen_name;q.tweet_url=q.user_url+"/status/"+q.tweet_id;q.reply_url=q.twitter_base+"intent/tweet?in_reply_to="+q.tweet_id;q.retweet_url=q.twitter_base+"intent/retweet?tweet_id="+q.tweet_id;q.favorite_url=q.twitter_base+"intent/favorite?tweet_id="+q.tweet_id;q.retweeted_screen_name=q.retweet&&p.retweeted_status.user.screen_name;q.tweet_relative_time=h(q.tweet_time);q.entities=p.entities?(p.entities.urls||[]).concat(p.entities.media||[]):[];q.tweet_raw_text=q.retweet?("RT #"+q.retweeted_screen_name+" "+p.retweeted_status.text):p.text;q.tweet_text=a([e(q.tweet_raw_text,q.entities)]).linkUser().linkHash()[0];q.tweet_text_fancy=a([q.tweet_text]).makeHeart().capAwesome().capEpic()[0];q.user=l('<a class="tweet_user" href="{user_url}">{screen_name}</a>',q);q.join=n.join_text?l(' <span class="tweet_join">{join_text}</span> ',q):" ";q.avatar=q.avatar_size?l('<a class="tweet_avatar" href="{user_url}"><img src="{avatar_url}" height="{avatar_size}" width="{avatar_size}" alt="{screen_name}\'s avatar" title="{screen_name}\'s avatar" border="0"/></a>',q):"";q.time=l('<span class="tweet_time">{tweet_relative_time}</span>',q);q.text=l('<span class="tweet_text">{tweet_text_fancy}</span>',q);q.reply_action=l('<a class="tweet_action tweet_reply" href="{reply_url}">reply</a>',q);q.retweet_action=l('<a class="tweet_action tweet_retweet" href="{retweet_url}">retweet</a>',q);q.favorite_action=l('<a class="tweet_action tweet_favorite" href="{favorite_url}">favorite</a>',q);return q}return this.each(function(p,s){var r=a('<ul class="tweet_list">');var q='<p class="tweet_intro">'+n.intro_text+"</p>";var o='<p class="tweet_outro">'+n.outro_text+"</p>";var t=a('<p class="loading">'+n.loading_text+"</p>");if(n.username&&typeof(n.username)=="string"){n.username=[n.username]}a(s).bind("tweet:load",function(){if(n.loading_text){a(s).empty().append(t)}a.getJSON(d(),function(u){a(s).empty().append(r);if(n.intro_text){r.before(q)}r.empty();var v=a.map(u.results||u,i);v=a.grep(v,n.filter).sort(n.comparator).slice(0,n.count);r.append(a.map(v,function(w){return"<li>"+l(n.template,w)+"</li>"}).join("")).children("li:first").addClass("tweet_first").end().children("li:odd").addClass("tweet_even").end().children("li:even").addClass("tweet_odd");if(n.outro_text){r.after(o)}a(s).trigger("loaded").trigger((v.length===0?"empty":"full"));if(n.refresh_interval){window.setTimeout(function(){a(s).trigger("tweet:load")},1000*n.refresh_interval)}})}).trigger("tweet:load")})}})(jQuery);
So, please help me anyone how may I fix this issue? It would be really very helpful for me man. Waiting for anyone answers here!

Answer 1

You cannot continue using the seaofclouds tweet.js and expect to pull tweets like you used to last month. The cause of this was that twitter 1.0 api was recently replaced with 1.1 - https://dev.twitter.com/blog/api-v1-is-retired. The author of jquery.tweet.js talks about the API changes and the state of his plugin here: https://github.com/seaofclouds/tweet/#important-note-about-twitters-api-changes-in-2013 and a separate discussion can be found here: https://github.com/seaofclouds/tweet/issues/264 with an alternative (which works) - https://github.com/StanScates/Tweet.js-Mod.
Tweet.js-Mod is a modified version of the original jquery.tweet.js and uses a php script to access twitter's API version 1.1.
Installation instructions can be found here: https://github.com/StanScates/Tweet.js-Mod#how-to-use

Answer 2

Looks like this is a major change to how Twitter is handling requests, version 1.0 of their API allowed unauthenticated requests, but now that has changed where Twitter is pushing developers to use their embedded timelines, which requires authentication.
Discussion of Twitter transition from v1.0 to v1.1

Answer 3

Let me warn you about using the https://github.com/StanScates/Tweet.js-Mod#how-to-use
It works perfectly but some of your clients where the website runs may have this ERROR
ERROR:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://api.getmytweets.co.uk/?screenname=philipbeel&limit=5&undefined=undefined. Origin http://plugins.theodin.co.uk is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.
Also this method does not use the Oauth method and your security can be compromised. Twitter highly discourages the uses of client side authentication.
Your solution has 2 parts
Use a php based Oauth Script to retrieve you tweets in JSON format
Using Jquery format the JSON and show it into your website
SIMPLE AND SECURE.
HERE IS A COMPLETE TUTORIAL
http://www.webdevdoor.com/javascript-ajax/custom-twitter-feed-integration-jquery/