You can with the search request mode. Unfortunately this is not very reliable and only provides somewhat recent results.

Here you can find insight on this topic.

Quoted from the discussion:

Twitter’s search is optimized to serve relevant tweets to end-users in response to direct, non-recurring queries such as #hashtags, URLs, domains, and keywords. The Search API (which also powers Twitter’s search widget) is an interface to this search engine. Our search service is not meant to be an exhaustive archive of public tweets and not all tweets are indexed or returned. Some results are refined to better combat spam and increase relevance. Due to capacity constraints, the index currently only covers about a week’s worth of tweets.

The user timeline API is the definitive source of tweets by a specific author. For a collection of recent Tweets by more than one user, consider creating a Twitter List and leveraging the list timeline. The Streaming API is often the best-fit choice when seeking completeness.

If the tweets you’re looking for aren’t available in search and you think they should be, consult this support topic for further instructions to contact @Support.

If you’re not interested in exact results, you can find an example of using the search API with this class here – http://austinbrunkhorst.com/demos/twitter-class/#examples under Live Search Ticker.

Additionally, you can find documentation on search query operators here – https://dev.twitter.com/docs/using-search.

Fantastic. Thanks again for the support.

Thank you!

I sure am. Most comments here are resolved via email.

I’m using Twitter::RequestSearch

That’s odd. Are you sure that there are actually tweets in the cache file? Also, what do you mean by breaks the PHP execution?

No worries. It’s working fine.

Hmm. I am now getting this error: the following errors were reported by Twitter – Could not authenticate you; code 32.

Nevermind Austin! I regenerated my Twitter tokens and this seems to have resolved the issue. Thank you for your help! Great plugin and support!

Great! Glad you were able to resolve the issue.

Twitter does not generate those links at the end per se, but rather the account that you’re gathering the feed from manually puts them at the end.

Did you have the intention of completely removing them, expanding them to the original link, or what?

My intention is to completely remove them. But once I style the feed I could use CSS to remove them.

The easiest solution to removing links would be setting the option format_link to an empty string.

For example,

$options = array(
    // other required options
    // ...
    'format_link' => ''
);

Hi vfrago,

Did you properly include the other code segments? (PHP, JavaScript).

If you’re in Chrome, press CTRL + SHIFT + J to bring up the developer console. Are there any errors displayed?

Hi Mqss,

I’ve responded to your email.

Hi Chaisser,

I’m not sure what you mean – can you give me some more context?

Hi lucasbc,

To show only one tweet, you must change the option “count”.

Options that are not defaulted in the class such as “format” or “screen_name” are sent to Twitter’s API. Therefore, you can find all of the options for each request mode on Twitter’s documentation for that endpoint.

You can find the list of supported request types in the options page of the script’s documentation under request_type (http://austinbrunkhorst.com/demos/twitter-class/#options). Clicking on each request type will bring you to Twitter’s documentation.

Assuming you’re using the default request type (Twitter::RequestTimelineUser) you can find the documentation here – https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/user_timeline. Anything under Parameters can be used as an option in the class.

To answer your question specifically, setup your options array like this.

$options = array(
    // required stuff here (consumer_key, user_token, etc.)

    // display only one tweet
    'count' => 1
);

Unfortunately this script is targeted for PHP versions 5.3 and greater.

Yeah, kinda strange: on cvn.be: PHP Version 5.4.25 I’ve enabled my phpinfo for a second at: http://cvn.be/

Can you make a separate file that outputs just the PHP info on both servers? I’ll run a diff on the two and we can work from there.

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I think i can do this if i can get the id of the tweet. Do you know how to get the tweet id?

Got it : I used the call back function

function tweetId($tweet) { echo $tweet[‘id’]; }

Hi mbebwo,

Glad you were able to sort out the problems.

I also suggest you use the property $tweet['id_str'] as $tweet['id'] may not always return what you expect.

Hi w3box,

Thank you for discovering that bug. I’ve submitted an update that addresses the issue and it’s currently in queue for review on CodeCanyon.

If the update is urgent, you can send me an email at contact@austinbrunkhorst.com and I’ll send you the updated files directly.

I apologize for the inconvenience.

Thank you for the fast bugfix. Working perfect now!

Great! Glad to have helped.

You do not need to change any code. Did you move the file “cacert.pem” into the same directory as “ultimate.twitter.feed.php”?

Thanks. I was missing the “cacert.pem”. Works now ! Thanks for the fast responses.

No problem, glad you were able to resolve the issues.

Are you able to reply?

Hi janjo,

Thank you for pointing that out. I’ve put the latest update on my demo server.

What issues are you having with the live ticker?

Yes it does. I’ve published the fixes just a few days ago.