I have a client who wants their blog to display both Posts and Tweets in chronological order. These should be mixed into the same feed. I didn’t find any plugins that accomplished this, although there may be one I missed which someone could recommend.
I was thinking to pull the tweets and store them as a custom post type, and then just pull both post types when displaying, but Twitter’s TOS does not allow the storing of the data.
Only option I see is to pull the tweets on page load, and then write a custom function to merge the two chronologically, which seems like a bit of work. Also, as far a caching the tweets, how can I go about this, considering that Twitter does not allow for storage of this information?
Does anyone have a recommendation on the best way to accomplish this? Also the most efficient?
Thanks in advanced.
I’ve done this with Twitter Tools. Basically it hooks up the blog to a Twitter feed, and for each new tweet creates a blog post. You can put twitter posts in a separate category (or add tags), and use that to style twitter-posts differently from regular posts, hide the comments field, whatever.
Hope this helps – good luck!