Twitter @anywhere in action
Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 12:54PM You might have seen on the Twitter blog that Twitter have launched their new @anywhere service.
This allows you to easily incorporate various Twitter features directly into your blog. The most basic of these is the inclusion of "hovercards" (a synospis of a Twitter profile just like those on the main Twitter site) which automatically pop up if you include a Twitter handle in your blog post. These also allow you to follow the user right from the blog, which is really impressive.
Just to show this working I have including a reference to @beej777 (my handle) in plain text so you can see this in action. I haven't enabled it for the whole blog yet as I am still checking out what effect his has on speed.
Intelligent "follow" buttons, boxes to allow people to tweet direct from your blog and more are on offer - sure there will be some great uses for this!
It works on Safari, Firefox and IE, but unfortunately not on the iPhone as yet (as you will have seen if you are using one to read this!).
All you have to do is register a Twitter application and copy and include some fairly simply Javascript on your blog. Full documentation can be found here.
Peninsulawyer
I have now added the Twitter @anywhere hovercard functions throughout the blog.
For some reason the Squarespace Code Injection system doesn't appear to let you insert the @anywhere Javascript into the site <head> tags (it checks the code before letting you do anything and rejects it due to XML errors).
However, I have simply inserted it into the site footer instead, which seems to have done the trick as a workaround.
