Twitter And Your Drupal Site

Twitter is the hottest social network on the web right now so it's reasonable to think that Drupal site builders would be seeking different ways to integrate their sites with Twitter.Thankfully, there are a number of ways that Drupallers can leverage the power of Twitter on their sites.

Twitter Node Settings

Twitter Post Example

Imported Twitter Statuses

Tweet Module

The Tweet module adds a link that makes it very easy for site visitors to share your nodes on Twitter. The link to share with Twitter is displayed in the "links section" on nodes and teasers. The tweet link can be presented as an icon and the module project page points to some free "tweet this" buttons that you can use.

Feed API

Twitter offers a wide variety of feeds that you can then import to your Drupal site using the Feed API module. Once imported via the Feed API module you can customize the presentaton of the tweets using the views module. Each user has their own RSS feed (here's mine) that is linked in the right sidebar of their profile page. Twitter searches via http://search.twitter.com also generate RSS feeds as well. Here's a feed link generated by a search for "drupal" on Twitter. You can get even more granular feeds from Twitter if you use their advanced search feature. For example, here's a feed generated from a search for "drupal" and my username on Twitter. The feed only displays the tweets from me that mention Drupal.

Tweets Imported With FeedAPI