Adding Scrolling Twitter Tweets on your Blog or Websites

Twitter , a famous Social Networking  site also marks way of promoting your page links  through Twitter Resources like Follow Button,Tweet Button,Twitter icons/logos and Twitter Widgets.Using these inbuilt codes in Twitter ,you can customize them to your needs if you have a Twitter account.(check later)

How to add a horizontal scroll for Twitter Tweets?


Backup your templates in case you need them

1. Login Blogger and got to your dashboard-> Design-> Edit HTML

2. Using "Ctrl+F" , search for <b:/skin> by expanding the html codes . Before it place the below ajax codes

/* The container for the module */
   #twitter {
    background: #f1f2f8;
 
    width: 553px; /* Up to you but remember to change the div width below as well if you change it */
    padding: 0 10px;
 
    overflow: hidden; /* clearfix */
 
    -moz-border-radius: 5px;
    -webkit-border-radius: 5px;
    -o-border-radius: 5px;
    -ms-border-radius: 5px;
    border-radius: 5px;
   }
 
    #twitter h5 {
     float: left; /* We'll make the heading sit on its own line next to the tweets */
     width: 120px; /* Might wanna change this depending on the text in the heading */
     margin: 0;
     padding: 6px 0; /* I'll set the top and bottom padding here rather than in the container so as not to cut off any text */
 
     font-size: 12px;
     color: #4b9fff;
     line-height: 1;
    }
 
    /* The marquee plug-in turns a marquee element into a div */
    #twitter p,
    #twitter marquee, 
    #twitter div {
     float: right;
     width: 430px; /* Container width - heading width - 10px (for some right padding) */
     margin: 0;
     padding: 6px 0; /* Again we set the padding in here so as not to cut text */
     line-height: 1;
    }
 
     /* All the tweets will be links pointing to your page on twitter */
     #twitter marquee a, 
     #twitter div a {
      margin: 0 10px 0 0;
      color: #333;
      text-decoration: none;
     }
 
      /* The i is used to display the date of the tweet */
      #twitter marquee a i, 
      #twitter div a i {
       font-style: normal;
       color: #999;
      }  

The above codes defines how our feeds would like ,basically the skins.Save it (Important).

3. Now, find and place the below javascript code before it

<script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.1/jquery.min.js'/> 
  <script src='http://writershome.googlecode.com/files/jquery.marquee.js'/> 
  <script type='text/javascript'>
      //<![CDATA[ 
   var Twitter = {
    init: function () {
     // Pass in the username you want to display feeds for
   this.insertLatestTweets('writershome');
    }, 
 
    // This replaces the <p>Loading...</p> with the tweets
    insertLatestTweets: function (writershome) {
     var limit = 5; // How many feeds do you want?
     var url  = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=' + writershome + '&count=' + limit + '&callback=?';
 
     // Now ajax in the feeds from twitter.com
     $.getJSON(url, function (data) {
      // We'll start by creating a normal marquee-element for the tweets
      var html = '<marquee behavior="scroll" scrollamount="1" direction="left">';
 
      // Loop through all the tweets and create a link for each
      for (var i in data) {
       html += '<a href="http://twitter.com/' + writershome + '#status_' + data[i].id_str + '">' + data[i].text + ' <i>' + Twitter.daysAgo(data[i].created_at) + '</i></a>';
      }
 
      html += '</marquee>';
 
      // Now replace the <p> with our <marquee>-element
      $('#twitter p').replaceWith(html);
 
      // The marquee element looks quite shite so we'll use Remy Sharp's plug-in to replace it with a smooth one
      Twitter.fancyMarquee();
     });
    }, 
 
    // Replaces the marquee-element with a fancy one
    fancyMarquee: function () {
     // Replace the marquee and do some fancy stuff (taken from remy sharp's website)
     $('#twitter marquee').marquee('pointer')
      .mouseover(function () {
       $(this).trigger('stop');
      })
      .mouseout(function () {
       $(this).trigger('start');
      })
      .mousemove(function (event) {
       if ($(this).data('drag') == true) {
        this.scrollLeft = $(this).data('scrollX') + ($(this).data('x') - event.clientX);
       }
      })
      .mousedown(function (event) {
       $(this).data('drag', true).data('x', event.clientX).data('scrollX', this.scrollLeft);
      })
      .mouseup(function () {
       $(this).data('drag', false);
      });
    }, 
 
    // Takes a date and return the number of days it's been since said date
    daysAgo: function (date) {
     // TODO: Fix date for IE...
     if ($.browser.msie) {
      return '1 day ago';
     }
 
     var d = new Date(date).getTime();
     var n = new Date().getTime();
 
     var numDays = Math.round(Math.abs(n - d) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));
     var daysAgo = numDays + ' days ago';
 
     if (numDays == 0) {
      daysAgo = 'today';
     }
     else if (numDays == 1) {
      daysAgo = numDays + ' day ago';
     }
 
     return daysAgo;
    }
   };
 
   Twitter.init();
   //]]>
    </script>

Replace writershome marked in red with your own twitter id in the above code. Again, Save this template(Important)

4. Next, go to the Page elements and add a HTML widget and paste this below code

<div id="twitter"> 
                        <h5>Latest tweets</h5>
    <p>Loading...</p> 
 
   <noscript>This feature requires JavaScript</noscript> 
 
  </div>

5.Save it and now view your blog ..tada :)

Finally I have learned how to do this in a easy way : D