Use Local Storage to save tweets

tbillenstein / jTweetsAnywhere

jTweetsAnywhere is a jQuery Twitter Widget that simplifies the integration of Twitter services into your site

http://thomasbillenstein.com/jTweetsAnywhere/

MIT License

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Use Local Storage to save tweets #12

Open tbillenstein opened 12 years ago

tbillenstein commented 12 years ago

... and call Twitter API only after a predefined timeout. This would help those who have the plugin implemented on each page of their site to get around Twitter's rate limit

beebs93 commented 11 years ago

Hey Thomas,

Just curious if this is something you're still thinking of implementing or decided it wasn't worth the trouble.

If you're open to others taking a stab at this, could you provide some more specific details (to speed along any pull requests)?

Will the timeout be user-defined or hard-coded in the settings
Do you care about an IE7< fallback for localStorage or would those users just not have any cached Tweets?
Would you want the cached tweets to be available to the developer via a public function or would it solely be kept internal?

Cheers

tbillenstein commented 11 years ago

Hey Brad,

thanks for your interest in that topic. Actually I haven't thought of that for quite a while. At the moment I'm more concerned of the fact that Twitter will sunset @Anywhere and the 1.1 API changes that will come. If every user will have to oauth before getting any tweets it'll be a hard time for pure client-side stuff like jTweetsAnywhere.

beebs93 commented 11 years ago

Ah that's right - totally forgot about the upcoming changes. Thanks for the reply anyway :)