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[Eieieio]

Could we perhaps have a page which publishes all tweets with the hashtag #brentfordfc?
This would make it easier for those who are a) not on twitter and b) on twitter but spend all their time on the grapevine like me! ...... keep to to date with the latest comments, rumours (most of which are rubbish granted) and player chat.

just a suggestion, feel free to rubbish it :banana:

 

[bees66]

isn't that what newsbot is for.. he or she never replies to anyone's pm

 

[Les Beeavinu]

Could we perhaps have a page which publishes all tweets with the hashtag #brentfordfc?
This would make it easier for those who are a) not on twitter and b) on twitter but spend all their time on the grapevine like me! ...... keep to to date with the latest comments, rumours (most of which are rubbish granted) and player chat.

just a suggestion, feel free to rubbish it :banana:

I looked into this - it looked quite difficult so I stopped looking into it. I might look into it again but you know how it is; works, kids, Brentford, drinking ...... never seems to be enough hours in the day does there? Let mew have another think.

 

[hairman]

I looked into this - it looked quite difficult so I stopped looking into it. I might look into it again but you know how it is; kids, Brentford, drinking, work ...... never seems to be enough hours in the day does there? Let mew have another think.

I think this is what you meant

 

[Mr Tree]

it is a nice idea, but i can't quite get work out how we'd do it effectively either..... i think you can set up a widget (or sthg) that would focus specifically on certain details (i.e. certain hashtags), but then of course it'd miss any that didn't have those hashtags..... maybe a GPG-specific feed that follows certain players etc and retweets them, but the age-old question is who has time for that? plus there are other Brentford-overview accounts, so it'd just be "yet another" of those.....

and most twitter feeds like this operate as side-bars.... i wouldn't want a side-bar clogging up this messageboard (and it wouldn't work with phone versions), but a separate page of just twitter messages would be a bit barren......

nice idea and surely there's a clever way, i can't get my head round it just yet tho :scratch:

 

[condorman]

Hairman smells of wee #brentfordfc

 

[Les Beeavinu]

it is a nice idea, but i can't quite get work out how we'd do it effectively either..... i think you can set up a widget (or sthg) that would focus specifically on certain details (i.e. certain hashtags), but then of course it'd miss any that didn't have those hashtags..... maybe a GPG-specific feed that follows certain players etc and retweets them, but the age-old question is who has time for that? plus there are other Brentford-overview accounts, so it'd just be "yet another" of those.....

and most twitter feeds like this operate as side-bars.... i wouldn't want a side-bar clogging up this messageboard (and it wouldn't work with phone versions), but a separate page of just twitter messages would be a bit barren......

nice idea and surely there's a clever way, i can't get my head round it just yet tho :scratch:

Nail on head tbh.

 

[condorman]

you could of course just set up a twitter account and only use it to search the hashtag #brentfordfc

 

[Mr Tree]

yeah you could, but i think it's still a bit unideal (see above)

 

[Beat Poet]

Would it even be ethical to put stories from the official site/Chronny on a Twitter feed anyway, given that most of the stories are already posted on Twitter by the original sites? Bite-size bits of info or well wishes would be fine I guess, like "best wishes to @ElAlagui up at @dundeeunitedfc from the GPG!" and retweeting the odd thing. As far as I can see, a GPG Twitter account would probably best used for GPG news (like technical trouble), to encourage people to become members and to get people to join in the discussion on whatever the big issue is.

 

[mattfarr89]

There is a way to embed a twitter feed with #brentfordfc, I don't know how you would have it as a post in a forum, but I'd imagine easier to add a feed to the homepage.

https://twitter.com/settings/widgets/new/search?query=#brentfordfc - that link gives you the code etc to do it - you need to log in first however.

That will just have a rolling feed with all #brentfordfc tweets!

 

[mattfarr89]

You can also make it search for more than 1 hashtag, by putting OR between each one

eg #brentfordfc OR #brentford etc...

 

[Les Beeavinu]

There is a way to embed a twitter feed with #brentfordfc, I don't know how you would have it as a post in a forum, but I'd imagine easier to add a feed to the homepage.

https://twitter.com/settings/widgets/new/search?query=#brentfordfc - that link gives you the code etc to do it - you need to log in first however.

That will just have a rolling feed with all #brentfordfc tweets!

I will look at it again but the problem before was integrating into the forum software. Thanks though.

 

[coconino]

You can also make it search for more than 1 hashtag, by putting OR between each one

eg #brentfordfc OR #brentford etc...

Twitter search queries can include OR, AND, to:, from: etc. as well as date ranges. There's a list here.

Twitter.com and Twitter's own client apps can save your search terms (save once and it's available everywhere you log in), so I have a saved query for:

#BrentfordFC OR @BrentfordFC OR fromBrentfordFC OR @Beesotted OR fromBeesotted OR @BIAS_bfc OR fromBIAS_bfc

which I pop out into a separate window, which is effectively a sidebar on my screen. :computer:

On the main question though, I reckon anyone who wants to see Twitter feeds can use a Twitter client. :thetruth: If GPG Towers were to start including tweets in the site then people like me would end up seeing many tweets twice.

 

[Mr Tree]

ah, i reckon Eieieo has a point, it might serve some purpose to some... and i like matty's idea of maybe "just" having it as a sidebar on the front page.

good work team

 

[Eieieio]

I will look at it again but the problem before was integrating into the forum software. Thanks though.

Yeah, to be fair I should have probably come up with some suggestions for how to actually implement it before suggesting it! I'll have a think (and might even try some out on my company's test website haha)