Sohail Abid

Twitter Fans (WordPress Plugin)

I was looking for a plugin that can show my twitter followers in a box very much like Facebook’s fan widget. Found a couple but their presentation was not what I was looking for AND the thing that bothered me most was that they needed both your username and password to work.

I have strong opinion about developing applications that are smart and simple. So I created this plugin. After you activate, it gives you a new widget called Twitter Fans. Just drag n drop it in the sidebar. And set your username (that’s the only required thing). You can leave the rest empty.

Download from official WordPress plugin repository.

And of course, I would highly recommend you to follow me: @SohailAbid

Here is a screenshot of both the administration and how it appears on site:

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28 responses

  1. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    Great Plugin man..would be use it soon on my website

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  2. Ian Mayman Avatar
    Ian Mayman

    That’s cool and I’ll use it, but I wish there was an HTML version as well, one that could be put either into an regular HTML website or onto a Facebook profile page.

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  3. SocialBlogr Avatar
    SocialBlogr

    Really nice plugins. Why you don’t make it works for Blogger? Hmm, I will use it if any.

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  4. Carma Avatar
    Carma

    Hi Sohail,
    I installed your plugin and got this error:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_setopt_array() in /homepages/27/d180914401/htdocs/homesweethomepage/wp-content/plugins/twitter-fans-widget.php on line 101

    Any ideas?

    Thanks!

    – Carma

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    1. Sohail Abid Avatar
      Sohail Abid

      The error means your host does not support cURL library. Which should not be the case. You may request support to enable cURL.

  5. Wes Linda Avatar
    Wes Linda

    Tried this, no images are coming over from twitter. Empty images on the blog. Any ideas?

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  6. perro Avatar
    perro

    great!! thankz for sharing this…i probably use this

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  7. Dave Seldon Avatar
    Dave Seldon

    Installed the plugin but got fatal error on activation “Class ‘WP_Widget’ not found in …/twitter-fans/twitter-fans.php on line 11

    This is on wp2.7.1

    Will upgrading to 2.9 solve this?

    Regards,
    Dave Seldon

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    1. Sohail Abid Avatar
      Sohail Abid

      Yes Dave. This plugin is for WordPress 2.8 and above.

  8. Nitin Kumar Jain Avatar
    Nitin Kumar Jain

    This is really a cool plugin .. Thanks for creating it … Great work …

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  9. Siddanth Avatar
    Siddanth

    i uploaded the folder to wp-content/plugins but it doesn get detected in plugins how do i activate it using wp 2.9

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  10. Enrico Ferretti Avatar
    Enrico Ferretti

    Hello can you please let me know how to resize the box of this widget, is too large for the right column of my blog.
    Thank’s in advance.

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  11. Momekh Avatar
    Momekh

    Isn’t the usage of cURL a redundant thing in WP 2.8 and above? I heard somewhere in the WP plugin dev community that using cURL gives the problem that one of your users just faced, that the lib is sometimes not accessible to the WP system. Any thoughts on that?

    And I am d/l’ing this right now, will be nagging you a lot more regarding plugin dev than you’d find comfortable :P

    Gr8 going and good luck in the future m’man :)
    God bless and peace out,
    M.

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  12. Gulfam Mustafa Avatar
    Gulfam Mustafa

    Tried this, no images are coming over from twitter. Empty images on the blog. Any ideas?

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  13. Jim MacDonald Avatar
    Jim MacDonald

    Thanks for Twitter Fans Widget A WordPress Plugin.

    Real cool only putting in my user name and bingo up pop my Twitter fans – on my website. Using WP 2.9.

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  14. TonyB Avatar
    TonyB

    Great Plugin, Is is possible to change the size of the follower pictures so they are smaller?

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  15. Cheryl Ann Avatar
    Cheryl Ann

    I like this widget, but I have a question. Why does it display my real name? I do not want it to do that. I entered my Twitter name in the form. Please let me know if I need to do something else. Thanks!

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  16. Kendra Avatar
    Kendra

    Great widget. Quick question? Is there a way to randomly rotate the followers, rather than showing the same ones all the time? Like every time a new follower is added, it updates on the widget? Thanks so much!

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  17. Jay Versluis Avatar
    Jay Versluis

    SUPERB Plugin, exactly what I was looking for. I share your philosophy about “why ask for a password when it’s not needed”. Well done!

    Slight snag though: I’ve got it running on http://www.vipscoop.com, and it works a treat. However, on two other sites I run (different server) it doesn’t seem to work. The widget appearrs, but neither the title nor the followers or pictures are displayed. Curl is installed on both servers. Any ideas?

    Suggestion:
    – make the widget sizable (width)

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  18. Jay Versluis Avatar
    Jay Versluis

    I checked this again with another site, it has to be the server configuration. They’re both Linux (CentOS distributions). One is a virtual server with 32-bit OS (Plugin working fine), the other one is a dedicated server with 64-bit OS (not working).

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  19. Cancun Avatar
    Cancun

    First I congratulate you on excellent plugin, the problem that I have is that my sidebar does not admit widget, for what I have not insert it to place it by means of php I have used the following judgment and and not working some suggestion sorry for my English

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  20. Marco Avatar
    Marco

    I Quote Cheryl Ann.
    Tried to change twitterfans_username to user_screen_name but fail.
    Any tips???

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  21. Jessi Avatar
    Jessi

    Is there a way I can hardcode this into the sidebar instead of using the widget? It’s because I customized my sidebar in a different way.

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  22. lucas Avatar
    lucas

    Is there any way to adjust the width of the widget? I have a fb list on my page as well (like the above graphic) but I had to adjust it to fit on my sidebar. Can I do this? Please help!!!

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