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Author: Kirill Novitchenko

Similar in functionality to Twitter's own widget but has support for multiple authors, hashtags, and keywords all blended together. The plugin can show tweets from just one user (as all other Twitter plugins do); however, it can also show tweets for a topic which you can define via Twitter hashtag or keyword. But there is more! It can also show tweets for multiple authors AND multiple keywords AND multiple hashtags all blended together into a single stream.

Follow TweetBlender on Twitter to keep up to date on bug fixes and releases and join the conversation using #tweetblender hashtag

Features

• Shows tweets from one or more Twitter users (e.g. @tweetblender)
• Shows tweets for one or more topic defined by keywords (e.g. 'wordpress')
• Shows tweets for one or more topic defined by Twitter hashtag (e.g. #wordpress)
• Shows tweets for multiple users, multiple topics, and multiple hashtags blended together into single stream
• Allows to turn display of user's photo ON/OFF. Photos can be OFF in the sidebar to conserve screen space and ON on the archive page.
• Allows to replace @screennames in tweets with links to user accounts (open in new window)
• Allows to replace #hastags in tweets with links to Twitter search results for that hashtag (open in new window)
• Allows to replace URLs in tweets with links to those URLs (open in new window)
• Automatically creates a page with archive (a longer, expanded list of tweets). Can be disabled if you want to create archive manually or don't need an archive.
• Allows to override automatic archive page with a custom archive page
• Allows to specify number of tweets to show in the sidebar widget
• Allows to specify number of tweets to show on the archive page
• Provides template tag <?php tb_widget(); ?> to include widget on any page
• Provides template tag <?php tb_archive(); ?> to include archive on any page
• Provides "refresh" icon that allows users to manually refresh tweet list
• Allows to specify refresh period which turns ON automatic refresh of the tweet list
• Checks screennames, keywords, and hashtags for validity prior to saving which ensures that no protected users were specified
• Displays "reply" and "follow" links for each tweet that appear when user places mouse over the tweet area.
• Allows to create individual twitter streams for different authors by overriding sources in tb_archive() tag (e.g. <?php tb_archive('@knovitchenko'); ?>)
• Provides basic caching mechanism to store Twitter data and work around Twitter API's connection limit
• Allows to reroute all Twitter API requests via blog's web server to take advantage of white-listed server
• Allows to filter tweets by language (for hashtags and keyword sources only)
• NEW: allows to expand shortened URL and show them to users when mouse is over a link or special icon (in Beta). Uses URLexpand.com.