Reliable Twitter wordpress plugin resources analysis

Download This Plugin
Download Elegant Themes
Name	Reliable Twitter
Version	2.2.1
Author	David Hollander
Rating	0
Last updated	2012-09-06 02:26:00
Downloads	14141
Download Plugins Speed Test plugin for Wordpress

Home page

Delta: 0%

Post page

Delta: 0%

Reliable Twitter plugin has no negative impact on PageSpeed score.

Home page PageSpeed score has been degraded by 0%, while Post page PageSpeed score has been degraded by 0%

Reliable Twitter plugin added 17 bytes of resources to the Home page and 10 bytes of resources to the sample Post page.

Reliable Twitter plugin added 0 new host(s) to the Home page and 0 new host(s) to the sample Post page.

Great! Reliable Twitter plugin ads no tables to your Wordpress blog database.

Resources Added (Post page)

Description

ATTENTION: Twitter has announced that it is dropping support for RSS feeds on March 5, 2013. As such, it is not recommended that you use Reliable Twitter as it will not function properly after Twitter removes RSS feed support.

Adds a sidebar widget to display Twitter updates using the more-reliable Google Ajax API.

The Problem: On many blogs, I need to add a little twitter badge to a front-page or sidebar. There are many, many great apps out there to do this including Twitter's own JavaScript badge. The problem is that Twitter's feed is very unreliable and only works about 50% of the time. That's completely unacceptable.

The Solution: After much looking around, I've hit upon a simple method for displaying tweets using Google's Ajax API. Google's reliable servers do all the caching for us and life is good again.

I used the excellent Twitter Widget app by Sean Spalding as a base and the Google Ajax concept by Emmett Connolly.