Last month, we issued an assignment for students from the International Business School in Groningen. As part of the results, they presented this sweet video that helps you get the most out of Twitterfountain.
Take four minutes to get comfortable with all the possibilities that Twitterfountain has to offer and create your own optimized version and include it in your site!
Right now we’re experiencing some issues with embedded twitterfountains. The new font system won’t load from some domains, which freezes the fountain at the ‘loading fonts’ screen. If you see this error, try clearing your browser cache and reloading the site containing the fountain.
Also, there’s a problem with checking the ‘twitpic’ box in the images tab. We’re looking into it right now, but it may take a while. Please uncheck the ‘twitpic’ box to get the fountain up and running again!
Our apologies for any inconvenience!
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While working on the recent addition of japanese fonts, I found some time to experiment with new animation styles for the Twitterfountain.
The new animation style uses a 3D effect to display 1 twitter message at a time.
To select the animation, choose ’swing’ from the message animation settings.
The new animation is still in Beta, like the Japanese font support. You can try it out at www.twitterfountain.com/kanji
We’ve had many requests for including japanese characters in the Twitterfountain animations. The reason this feature wasn’t included from the start is that the twitterfountain animation cannot use system fonts (for example, a Japanese font on the computer of a Japanese user). System fonts simply don’t look very good when used in animation!
We’ve finally come up with a solution. When displaying a Twitterfountain, you can open the settings menu and click ‘load kanji’. This will load the Japanese characters (Kanji and Kana).
Loading Japanese characters (also usable to display Chinese) comes with a small price: an additional download of 1MB. By comparison: the regular font is just 16KB.
When embedding a fountain, you can choose to load Japanese characters by default. Just tick ‘load kanji’ before getting the embed code.
Please preview the new font-enabled Twitterfountain and tell us if you find any irregularities! When all goes well, we will replace the old TwitterFountain.
www.twitterfountain.com/kanji
For all of you out there that want things quicker and easier, this might help you out!
Our resident hackers have come up with a way to quickly build a Twitterfountain without having to visit the Twitterfountain-site and going through all the settings! Simply type in the url http://twitterfountain.com/custom/yourkeyword and replace yourkeyword with the hashtag or keyword of your choice.
Try these to see how they work:
http://twitterfountain.com/custom/obama
http://twitterfountain.com/custom/ladygaga
http://twitterfountain.com/custom/chatroulette
Adding a custom image search
When you don’t want the image keyword to be the same as the twitter search keyword, you can add a slash and then add your image keyword, for example:
http://twitterfountain.com/custom/luigi/supermario
About using hashags in the URL
Currently you can’t use a # character in the URL bar, please replace this character with %23. You can also leave the hash out entirely if your keyword is unique enough.
Example: http://twitterfountain.com/custom/%23supermario