Integrating Twitter feed to your Drupal site

Twitter API can be a major PITA sometimes, but luckily there are modules for Drupal that makes integrating it to your website easy.

Required items:

Twitter module (this tutorial uses 7.x-5.8 version)
Oauth module (this tutorial uses 7.x-3.2 version)
A Twitter account

Steps for installation:

Download the above modules
Enable Twitter and Oauth modules
Go to https://apps.twitter.com/
Click 'Create New App'
Give Name, Description and Website for this integration
Under Callback URL, input 'http://yourdomain.com/twitter/oauth'
Click 'Create'
In your Drupal site, go to http://yourdomain.com/admin/config/services/twitter/settings
In OAuth Consumer key and OAuth Consumer secret, input your app credentials (it's under 'Keys and Access Tokens' tab in Twitter)
Click 'Save configuration'
Go to Twitter tab in your Drupal site
Click 'Go to Twitter to add an authenticated account'
Authorize the app with your Twitter credentials
Your Drupal site should now have your Twitter profile icon displayed! In that line, tick Tweets checkbox and click 'Save changes'

That's it, your site is now integrated with your Twitter feed! The tweets can be integrated with Views to your site. The Twitter module creates a View automatically that displays the tweets, the default url is http://yourdomain.com/tweets. You can edit this view or create completely new.

You can see the result on this site, the tweets on the right are pulled from my Twitter feed and displayed as a View.

If you don't see any Tweets coming up, remember to run cron in your Drupal site.

Tags:

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Drupal Planet

Comments

Note that for consuming streaming APIs, the twitterstream module (https://www.drupal.org/project/twitterstream) is a development attempt at doing that. Just leaving it there in case somebody would be interested.

Thanks, that's really helpful! I had no idea you could integrate the new Streaming API to Drupal.

Thank you for introducing twitterstream. That helps me. Thanks again!

Thanks for explaining how to set it up.

Is there away of limiting the number of tweet that are displayed, You have 5 tweets displayed mine has 20 and its making the sidebar really long?

Hi, how did you finally solve the number of tweets to show?

Thanks for the tutorial.
I was looking for a way to implement twitter feeds to Drupal for more than a month but i was trying to implement OAuth+Feeds to create tweets content.
Is there any way that i could incorporate this with Feeds module?
Thanks in advance.

Hi, Great how-to. Thanks!

I am having some issues though. My Twitter feed isn't updating, even if I manually run cron. I have done some basic troubleshooting with no joy. Do you have any suggestions?
Things I have tested. I went to twitter and checked that oauth is working and it appears to be.
I have disabled and enabled the module.
Thanks

Hi, many years ago integrating a twitter account caused the account to be shut down by twitter because the integration was seen as "suspicious" by twitter, this was solved by contacting Twitter and getting some certain "status" - is this still an issue these days?
Can I select only tweets with a certain # to appear in the feed? -> I could have different feeds on different webpages from the same Twitter account?

in my website i did all configuration but it is not showing any message

This is such a helpful article, thank you. I've referred to it again and again when adding twitter feeds.

Thanks a lot, really helpful and clear description.

Thank you for the clear instructions!

Greetings to all, giuys! Thanks for the article, and here’s a question for you straight away – does integration with Instagram way go in a similar way?