BIRT Twitter Gadget

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Twitter provides an xml feed of postings and what’s more it provides this for Twitter searches. So if you have a web site or intranet site and you want to create a display of all Twitter postings about a particular subject then this guide shows you how.<br />
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The guide covers how to find a Twitter XML feed for a particular subject using hashtags or how to find a Twitter XML feed for all the posts from a particular person.<br />
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Then it goes on to explain with detailed step by step screen shots, exactly how to access the Twitter feed as a data source within BIRT and how to create a report based on this.<br />
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Finally it explains how to embed your BIRT Twitter gadget in a web page.<br />
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This was great fun to write and I hope you enjoy trying it as much as I did writing it.