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RokTwittie is a module that integrates Twitter into your Joomla site. Display tweets of any username, or even by search terms, as well as your profile information and various other elements from Twitter itself. RokTwittie is the perfect compliment to any Social site, or Business site that uses Twitter.

Module Features

• Real Time Tweets: Tweets update live from Twitter
• Search: Use the inbuilt search to scan for usernames or keywords
• Profile information: Show your profile details, such as name, avatar and bio
• Fast Loading: Written from the ground up for greater performance
• Highly configurable: Options to control every aspect of RokTwittie
• Twitter Authentication: Choose between Anonymous and App Authentication
• Retweet Support: http://support.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/77606-what-is-retweet-rt
• Caching: Use of Joomla Cache for greater stability
• Friendly Errors: If Twitter is down, or CURL is not installed, RokTwittie will fail gracefully

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Module Configuration

Options available at Admin → Extensions → Module Manager → RokTwittie Module:

Twitter Options

• Use OAuth: Set this to yes when using RokTwittie on a live site.
• Authenticate: Sign in with Twitter with your username and password to authorize RokTwittie.
• Module Class Suffix: Add a custom class for individual styling
• Load Built-in CSS: Choose whether to load the standalone styling or to load the CSS from the template. You should disable this option only if you wish to use your own styling which you have already created.
• Output Caching: As the name suggests, if this is enabled, the module will enable caching in order to save on performance and prevent the 100 Twitter API limit being met.
• Timeout on connect (secs): The number of seconds to wait while trying to connect to Twitter. User 0 to wait indefinitely.
• Timeout on response (secs) The maximum number of seconds to allow cURL functions to execute.
• Cache Time: If caching is enable, set, in minutes, the time you wish before it is cleared and new data is called.
• Usernames, separated by comma: You can insert your username or multiple usernames (separated by a comma) here and the module will load them.
• Inactive user opacity: This sets the opacity of the inactive user tab, if you have multiple users set to show in RokTwittie.

General Options

• Show default avatars: When enabled, your profile picture from Twitter will appear in the module, alongside your other profile information.
• Show default avatars: Choose between a light and dark style, depending on the background of the module.
• Include ReTweets: Determines whether retweets are shown.
• Enable username statuses: This option controls whether the statuses from each username appears in the module.
• Open links in new window: A self explanatory parameter, basically, all links in RokTwittie can be set to either open in a new window (will default to a new tab in certain browsers) or load in the page you are viewing.
• Show RSS feed link: This parameter controls whether the RSS feed link for your profile appears in the module, it is accompanied by the RSS feed icon.
• Show Follow Updates Link: Set to show if you wish to show the updates link.
• Show the Bio Description: Set to show if you wish to show your Twitter Bio in the module.
• Show the URL: If you have a website address in your profile, this option allows you to show it.
• Show the location: Again, if this is set in your twitter profile, you can set it to appear.
• Show user updates count: Show the number of updates of the user.
• Show user followers count: Show the number of those who are following the user.
• Show user following count: Show the number of those who the user is following.
• Show following icons: Set to show if you wish to show the icons/avatars of the users who are following the user.
• Icon Count: If icons are enabled, this option controls the number that are actually displayed.
• Show View all after Icons: When enabled, an additional link will be placed below the icons to view all of the following twitter users.

Tweet Options

• Enable usernames tweets: This parameter allows you to show the tweets from the user set above.
• Show usernames avatar: Set to show if you wish to show the avatar next to each tweet.
• Size in pixel of the avatar: If you set the username avatars to show, this controls the size in pixels.
• Tweet count: This sets the number of tweets to show if enabled.
• Open links in new window: A self explanatory parameter, basically, all links in RokTwittie can be set to either open in a new window (will default to a new tab in certain browsers) or load in the page you are viewing.
• Show tweets sources: When enabled, the sources of each tweet will be shown.
• Show username as preopened text: If set to show, the username of the tweeter will appear before each tweet.

Search Options

• Enable search tweets: This parameter allows you to show the tweets from the search option.
• Search string: Enter the value you wish to search for in Twitter.
• Show search avatar: Set to show if you wish to show the avatar next to each search tweet.
• Size in pixel of the avatar: If you set the search avatars to show, this controls the size in pixels.
• Tweet count: This sets the number of tweets to show if enabled.
• Open links in new window: A self explanatory parameter, basically, all links in RokTwittie can be set to either open in a new window (will default to a new tab in certain browsers) or load in the page you are viewing.
• Show tweets sources: When enabled, the sources of each tweet will be shown.
• Show username as preopened text: If set to show, the username of the tweeter will appear before each tweet.