Installl AjaxTweet as any standard Joomla module from Joomla Administrator. Publish it to a location that fits your site template (right hand site, left hand side etc).

Go to the Joomla Module manager and locate the AjaxTweet Module. Click on it to enter the configuration mode.

Module Class Suffix

Use the Module Class Suffix to control which CSS the module / module hader is using.  Read More

Style

The Style parameter controls mainly the width formatting of the module. There are 4 different setting, Narrow, Normal, Wide and Extra Wide. Try different settings and see which one works best.

Show Tweets

Three different settings:

• User Timeline
• User + Friends Timeline
• Search

User Timeline shows the latest tweets from a specific Twitter User.

User + Friends Timeline shows the latest tweets from the Twitter User + his/her friends.

Search shows results from a Twitter search.  See below.

Twitter Username / Password

Needed when you show Tweets from User Timeline or User + Friends Timeline.

Search String

Specify this when you want to show Tweets from a Search. You can configure the search criteria to return tweets from specific users, certain hashtags etc etc.  The full Twitter Search Syntax can be used.

Number of Tweets

Controls how many Tweets to show in the module.

Link to

Controls where the Twitter User icon link goes. You can link it to the Twitter User's home page or to the current tweet itself.

Tweet Area Rows

How many rows in the textarea where the user enters the new tweet.

Tweet Form

Whether to show the tweet form or not below the tweets.

Shorten URL's

The URL's can be shortened automatically when you tweet using tinyurl.com.

Cache Time

A Twitter account is limited to 100 calls per hour for the API. If your website is busy then it's easy to exceed this limit. Use caching to reduce the number of calls to the Twitter API.  Set Cache Time=0 to use no caching.   (Time in minutes)

Note! If you do change search criteria etc in the module configuration - use the clean cache link below to empty the cache to see the change.

Module ID

The module ID is needed when you have more than one module instance on your website. Set the Module ID to a unique setting for each Module instance.

Password Map

You can map a fake password to a real password if you want. Useful when you want to let users post tweets using a common Twitter account, but you don't want to give out the real password.

Syntax:

fakepassword||realpassword

If you have more than one password that you wish to map, use comma delimiter between the passwords, like this

fakepassword1||realpassword1,fakepassword2||realpassword2

The colors of the rows and highlighting are configured in a CSS file. You can edit the CSS file to match the colors and style to your website.

CSS file location:    {JOOMLA}/modules/mod_ajaxtweet/assets

There are 4 CSS files in this folder. Each CSS corresponds to the style that you select. Edit the CSS file that matches the Style you have selected.

Use the AjaxTweet support forum for any questions or suggestions.