# Social stacks using Twitter Widget defunct?

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/social-stacks-using-twitter-widget-defunct/5671>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [March 3, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/social-stacks-using-twitter-widget-defunct/5671 "2016-03-03T19:59:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![jsc](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/jsc/32/340_2.png) [@jsc](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/jsc)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/social-stacks-using-twitter-widget-defunct/5671/1 "2016-03-03T19:59:55Z")

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Hi all,

for my twitter feed, I’m using Lifestream from weaveraddons which is, as most of you know, not maintained anymore since 2 years but did a very good job for me, anyway. Today, I realized that it would not pull content anymore based upon the twitter widget. I thought Twitter might have applied a change that has put the outdated method to an end and tried it with TwitterFetcher from WeaverThemes. Here, the widget-method did not deliver results, either

- Somebody out there running into the same problem?
- Somebody successfully using the PHP-Powered method?
- Somebody still successfully using the widget-method and with which stack?

Thanks for your help!

Jürgen

Edit#1: TweeCool from Doobox works with just the Twitter-Name (cool) but does not scroll results. It also does not allow for changing font size.

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**Author:** ![robbeattie](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/robbeattie/32/78_2.png) [@robbeattie](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/robbeattie)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 7:08am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/social-stacks-using-twitter-widget-defunct/5671/2 "2016-03-04T07:08:00Z")

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You could always use the official Twitter widget. It’s just some code you can paste into Rapidweaver.

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**Author:** ![willwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bc8723/32.png) [@willwood](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/willwood)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 8:16am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/social-stacks-using-twitter-widget-defunct/5671/3 "2016-03-04T08:16:53Z")

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I strongly suspect the Lifestream stack and other stacks might have been using older API’s for accessing and displaying tweets. Twitter has shut-down a lot of APIs in recent months, they’ve switched to SSL and killed-off many authorisation methods. The Twitter third-party addon market is virtually dead now. There seems to be a strong push towards promoted tweets and possibly advertising in the not-too-distant future.

As @robbeattie suggests, the official Twitter widget is probably the safest option you have left now:  
[https://twitter.com/settings/widgets](https://twitter.com/settings/widgets)

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**Author:** ![jsc](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/jsc/32/340_2.png) [@jsc](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/jsc)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 9:59am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/social-stacks-using-twitter-widget-defunct/5671/4 "2016-03-04T09:59:15Z")

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Thanks a lot, gentlemen!  
The final blow for Lifestream is a bummer (albeit it was to be expected). Was the best out there…  
I just got feedback from @weaver (WeaverThemes) and he’ll release an updated version of Twitterfetcher today.  
I will also give the “official” Twitter Widget snipped a shot and see how that behaves.  
Thanks again and happy day!

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**Author:** ![Steve\_F](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Steve\_F](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Steve_F)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 2:59pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/social-stacks-using-twitter-widget-defunct/5671/5 "2016-03-04T14:59:28Z")

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I too had a problem with Twitter Fetcher stack not working over the last 24hrs. Contacted Weaver Themes and within 2 hours they issued an updated stack and all is now fine.  
Excellent quick support!

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**Author:** ![jsc](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/jsc/32/340_2.png) [@jsc](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/jsc)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/social-stacks-using-twitter-widget-defunct/5671/6 "2016-03-04T15:23:28Z")

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Same here, @Steve_F. He mailed me this morning (CET)