Valid XHTML <object> Tags for Twitter Feed - Web Team Procedures and Notes

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NOTE: Subject to change.

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Embedding a Twitter Feed using Javascript (not <object> tag)

NOTE: Tested and validates. FAST (unless Twitter is slow or down). Looks like regular text so should be styled - note use of id="twitter_update_list".

<div class="embeddedmedia twitter rightfloat" style="border:1px dashed #000000; width:400px;">
<ul id="twitter_update_list">
  <li>Loading...</li>
</ul>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ohlonecollege.json?callback=twitterCallback2&amp;count=5"></script>
</div>

• Change number of tweets displayed by changing "count=5" to another number (example: count=3)
• Best to move <script> tags to bottom of page so page content loads even if Twitter is slow or down
• Border added to above example to emphasize the output of the code
• Cannot add <li> item after the first one - it won't be displayed
• Code above is modified a bit from the code found on from www.twitter.com