You can follow me at @annievang if you are on Twitter. I’m just testing out some functionality. Hover over my name @annievang !!

1. You need to have a Twitter account. http://twitter.com
2. Sign up your developer application at http://dev.twitter.com/anywhere and complete the form.
3. Add the javascript to your page.
4. Preview & test.  If something goes wrong, repeat step 3.
5. Done!

The instructions, tutorial, and documentation at dev.twitter.com were not intuitive.  Hovercards worked seamlessly since it requires only “read” access.  However, the follow badge widget was not working since it requires “read & write” access.  As of today Saturday, April 17, @anywhere applications are set to “read only”.

Here’s a link to the Google groups post stating that Twitter is working on a fix:

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/5c96366e2362fe85?pli=1

—- What I had to do to get around that was go to http://twitter.com/oauth and change my application settings to be “read & write”.

I wish Twitter would have updated their dev.twitter.com documentation page with that notice rather than just sending out a tweet.  I missed the tweet in my streams of other tweets and just read it now.  If it was noted on the documentation page, it would have saved me so much time troubleshooting.

Tags: twitter @anywhere tutorial code

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