Or, this should’ve been done nine months ago.

When I released v0.7 of my Twitter Statuses JavaScript Badge back in November of last year, it was right around the time that Twitter was rolling out their new ‘snowflake’ status ID generator which was going to have some implications for languages such as JavaScript. Unfortunately, I didn’t become aware of this until I started seeing random issues with status IDs a couple months later. More unfortunately, I’m only getting around to applying the minor tweak to fix this, and a minor issue with applying the ‘last’ class when there’s only one LI element, now.

Without further ado, I present v0.7.1! Please accept my apologies for sitting on this issue for so long and let me know if you have any questions, comments, or feature requests. Also, the source code is on GitHub.

FYI – I started developing a major update back in March, including a few frequently requested features. Hopefully I’ll get that polished up sometime this year.

I’ve just released Twitter Statuses JavaScript Badge v0.7 which includes the following improvements:

1. Support for searches as or the usual individual user’s statuses.
2. Now using John Gruber’s Improved Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs
3. More flexible adding of classes (incl. a new ‘reply’ class).
4. The examples (yes, there’s a new one for search) use purely CSS rendering (no images).

And, here’s the search example:

Drop me a line if you have any questions, comments, improvements, or feature requests. I have a few more features planned for the next release.

As usual, a couple days after the latest release of my Twitter Statuses JavaScript Badge and I’ve already discovered important changes that need to be released. Unlike last time, I’m not going to wait another year.

It’s my pleasure to introduce Twitter Statuses JavaScript Badge v0.6.1.

There are only two changes in this release: clickable hashtag links (I don’t know how I missed that feature all these years) and tuned the JSON request to get smaller responses.

Drop me a line if you have any questions, comments, improvements, or feature requests.

Just over a year ago (as my schedule seems to be) I released an update to my Twitter Statuses JavaScript Badge. Within two days I had further updates, including variables to override the name of the DIV element, hide the user’s icon, etc., ready to go, but I put it on the back burner as I was unhappy with the poor name-spacing.

About a month ago I rediscovered the postponed release, so this weekend I completely revamped my name-spacing. You know what that means? I better release v0.6 before I delay it again!

So, without further ado: Twitter Statuses JavaScript Badge v0.6

And the release notes are as follows:

Further namespacing improvements plus variables for defaults/settings. Re-implemented @reply filtering, limiting tweet count, and added changing of the element ID and disabling the icon.

This release really solidifies the base I’ve built up over the past few years and gives me something to build upon for the features I have in store.

Please let me know if you have any questions or feature requests.

I’ve been getting an increasing number of questions about my JavaScript Twitter Statuses Badge as of late and this past week the most prominent questions have been regarding using multiple Twitter badges on the same page. Here’s an except from one of my answers via email:

As it stands, due to the way the Twitter API works, it will only display one per page. That said, it is definitely possible to make it work with the following hacks:

1. In the mtaTwitterStatuses.js file, you can duplicate the mtaTwitterCallback() function and name it something like mtaTwitterCallback2().

2. Also in mtaTwitterStatuses.js, you’d then have to modify the last line of your new function, mtaTwitterCallback2(), to replace document.getElementById('mtaTwitter').innerHTML with document.getElementById('mtaTwitter2').innerHTML (note the change to ‘mtaTwitter2’.

3. Then, in your HTML, you’d want to put <div id="mtaTwitter"></div> where you want your first badge, <div id="mtaTwitter2"></div> (note the same change to “mtaTwitter2”) where you want your second badge.

4. Also in your HTML, you’d want to put the following just before the </body> tag:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/morgant.json?callback=mtaTwitterCallback&amp;count=1"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/slottedpiginfo.json?callback=mtaTwitterCallback2&amp;count=1"></script>

Note the “mtaTwitterCallback” & “mtaTwitterCallback2” in the above, in addition to the two different twitter account names (“morgant” & “slottedpiginfo”, in this case).

I’m currently considering my options for implementing better support for multiple badges on the same page for a future release, but I hope this helps in the meantime.

I’ve got a new version of my JavaScript Twitter Statuses Badge out for you all.

This version, 0.4, includes some minor modifications to the regular expression for @replies to fix some formatting & issues when they were abutting punctuation.

I’ve also further reduced the amount of HTML you need to include down to a single DIV element (plus the JavaScript include & call, naturally). You’ll have to replace the HTML and probably tweak your CSS (only slightly) to handle the changes, but I don’t intend to change the HTML again for quite some time.

As always, the latest version can be downloaded from the development page.

Update: I’ve released version 0.4.1 with a README file containing an overview, basic instructions, and change log. There are no other changes, so if you don’t need the README, you don’t have to worry about updating.

First I wait nearly two years for an update and then only a matter of days. I had actually intended to release this update nearly immediately after the last update, but twitter was having some issues when I was attempting to complete my testing. This weekend’s testing was successful, so here’s the latest update to my Twitter Statuses Badge.

Version 0.3 now includes clickable @replies and links. Many thanks to René van Meurs for the regular expressions.

As always, the latest version can be downloaded from the development page.

I’ve updated my Twitter Statuses Badge to include Jon Aquino’s IE date parse fix, some function name changes to reduce the possibility of namespace clashes, and tweaked the CSS a tad.

It’s a tiny update to a nearly two year old hack, but hopefully it’s still helpful to many of you. Version 0.2 is now available from the development page.