twitterFriends

twitterFriends is an unobtrusive jQuery plugin that simplifies the creation of an interactive Following /Followers widget based on a user’s Twitter profile.

Key Features:

• Fully customizable size, position, animation, and interaction hooks
• Works in all modern browsers including IE6
• Displays Friends with the user’s twitter page style (including: avatar, background color / image / tiling, text color, and link color)
• Can be set to give 100% of style control to the CSS
• Maintains all links, @users, #hash tags, and $ticker tags
• Converts the timestamp to “relative time” (ie: “10 min ago”, “2 days ago”)
• Supports multiple instances on a page

Full List of Customizable Options

• user – Username used to retrieve tweets – (eg: ‘makfak’)
• friendCount – Number of Users to display – (15)
• columns – Number of columns to display – (3)
• type – Determines which gets returned – a list of people you follow or people following you – (following / followers)
• showToolTip – Show / Hide the tooltip – (true / false)
• toolTipType – Determines where to show the tooltip – (tooltip / title)
• toolTipText – Determines the content of the tooltip: user’s current status or username – (status / user)
• toolTipAttachment – Determines the position of the tooltip: relative to the user or the mouse – (user / mouse)
• buttonText – The text to appear in the button at the bottom of the widget – (eg: ‘Follow Me’)
• noStyle – Turns off automatic styling leaving TwitterFriends 100% stylable via css – (true / false)
• showAnimation – Whether or not the widget’s OnLoad animation – (true / false)
• animateHeightDuration – Duration of the ‘height’ portion of the OnLoad animation – (750)
• animateHeightEasing – * REQUIRES the jQuery Easing Plugin * – Duration of the ‘height’ portion of the OnLoad animation – (eg: ‘easeInOutExpo’)
• animateFadeDuration – Duration of the ‘fadeIn’ portion of the OnLoad animation – (500)
• errorMessage – A unique message that displays if Twitter fails to respond – (eg: ‘Oops. Twitter appears to be down.’)