How to Spice Up Your Site With Twitter's Flash Widget

To add one of the Flash widgets to your site, you first need to copy a widget code. Here is how to do it in 8 simple steps:

1. Sign in to Twitter
2. Go to twitter.com/badges. There you can Get a Widget for Your Site
3. Click Other.
4. Click Continue
5. Select the Flash Widget option, and click Continue

*Adobe Flash Player is required to see widgets, so if you do not have it, Internet Explorer should provide you with an "Install This Add-on" Option

6. Select widget you want to install, and click Continue. You will either see the "Set up your Twitter" widget page or use the "Customize Your Widget" page.

7. Customize Your Widget.

Interactive widget: Use the "Select a style" list to choose your preferred design for the widget and also use the Widget size list to choose a width.

If you go with the "Display-only" widget: Click "Badge color" and click the color that you like.

8. Copy the code.

Interactive widget: Click the copy link. Display-only widget: Click "Copy to Clipboard"

If you are provided with an online editor by your web host, I highly recommend that you take advantage of this feature and use it to insert your widget code. The way you do this varies on the host, but here are the basic steps: Open the page in the editor, place the cursor where you eant the widget to appear, and paste.

If you are editing your page locally, open the file in your HTML editor, place cursor where you want and paste. Remember to save the work and upload the revised file to Web host.

Adding Twitter's HTML widget to your site

IF you want to add the HTML widget to your site, here are the basic steps:

1. Sign in to Twitter account
2. Go to twitter.com/badges
3. Click other
4. Click Continue. "Which type of widget would you like?" appears
5. Select HTML Widget option, and click Continue. The "Customize and Get the Code" page appears.
6. Use the "Number of updates" list to select the size of the tweet list.
7. Use the Title text box to change the title if you do not appreciate the default "Twitter Updates" title.
8. Highlight code in text box and copy.

*Note. To make sure that your page still loads successful even if Twitter is in "Fail Whale" mode and is having a problem, cut part of the widget code that begins with the first tag and ends with the last , and paste near the bottom of the page. Right above the tag.

Hope you successfully add a Twitter widget to spice up your site.

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The Song of the Twitters

Twitter, tweaks and tickles note,

Now I follow what you write;

Tweet updates alerts so fast,

For my followers to digest.

This is not "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" the popular nursery rhyme by Jane Taylor that you and I used to recite; neither is this the twittering of the Birds in the forest; but this is "The Song of the Twitters".

"Do You Twitter Yet?"

That was one of the front cover headline captions of the August 18th, 2008 edition of Fortune Magazine. So what's your response, or are you ignorant or lost on this phenomenon called Twitter?

"Thousands of people are doing that every day. According to comScore, Twitter had almost three million monthly users as of June, which is triple what it had last November. Those figures are probably low because they don't measure mobile activity, which is a large part of the Twittersphere..."- Fortune Magazine.

Twitter is a free service which combines text-messaging with blogging (micro-blogging). It allows dispensations of short messages to everyone interested in your information, online from computer or by cell-phone, through text messages (aka "SMS"); just type your message, maximum of 140 characters, and channel (update) it and your followers would get notification to the effect.

What do I have to twit?

Anybody that has a thing to say, has something to twit about. Religious, Economic, Political, Social, Ideological and Cultural (REPSIC) activities are being twitted every second, to followers all over the world. Offline and Online marketers tweet updates on their services, products, articles, web and blog-sites. Political campaign teams and Congressmen easily tweet their followers and constituents on latest developments; news alerts are being channeled to followers by world known notable News media via Twitter.

If your activities fall between or even beyond the REPSIC activities and you want to reach out to people on it, then you must be Twittering. A webmaster or netpreneur could also place a Twitter widget on his/her blog or website to automatically update developments and activities to visitors whenever s/he tweets. You could as well use Twitter application to link Tweet's updates into your Facebook and some Social Networking sites which you are a member.

What are you 'still' doing?

If you are not Twittering by now, you are reducing an awesome information dissemination outreach and awareness, and it is like leaving enormous profitable info-spread on the table unattended to. Follow the trend whose popularity is exponentially exploding daily. It's a two way issue- you follow other people's updates of interest and others follow yours too.

To follow the trend, just go to Twitter site and sign up and start Twittering and join in "The Song of the Twitters".

Gabriel Ogundimu, is an Information Marketer and a entrepreneur who is out to learn, rub minds, share ideas and make a successful Internet home business.

You can follow me on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/gabreala