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CFFEED - Twitter example

ColdFusion Tutorial #38

As Twitter's popularity continues to increase, users and consumers of the information being broadcast are looking for quick and easy ways to integrate some of the information into their own content. So I whipped up this short, but sweet, example of how easy it is to repurpose content from Twitter using just a dash of ColdFusion.

demo.cfm

If you're using ColdFusion 8, then all you have to do is use CFFeed to consume the feed. Here's a sample line of code:

As you'll see, CFFeed creates a very nice query object containing quite a bit of information for you. One field of interest at this point is the "CONTENT" field which contains HTML-formatted code for each tweet. If you prefer a "text-only" version of the tweet, then simply use the "TITLE" field. So, to show how easy this is, let's just loop over the feed items and output the "CONTENT."

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Author

Stephen Withington

Published

Thursday 18 Jun 2009

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This tutorial has been modified and published with permission of the author. The original tutorial can be found here
http://www.stephenwithington.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/3/4/Use-ColdFusions-CFFeed-to-Display-Your-Twitter-Tweets-and-more-on-Your-Blog-in-30-Seconds