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Start a live tweet stream at Blogivists

Posted by: Eric Odom  |  Posted in: News, Tools, Tricks  |  Posted on: 11-15-2009

One of our big goals for 2010 is to become more than a blogging platform. Of course, the blogs will always be the core part of the Blogivists family, but we want to expand out and be able to offer a lot more to our user base.

We’ve recently coded in a community feature that allows any user to create a community through the backend, we’ve added internal instant messaging systems, we made it possible for any user to start an internal discussion forum, we’ve expanded our themes to include premium themes, and now we’re adding one of the coolest features we’ve ever had…

…Live Tweet Streams.

Have you seen those cool live “tweet streams” that show constantly updating tweets around a user or topic? A year ago they required knowledge of code to set one up, but now thanks to Blogivists, you can set one up in less than 5 minutes.

Check out our demo of how it looks here.

Getting Started

To set up a tweet stream, go set up a new blog (and new user account if you don’t already have one). Once you’ve set up your new blog, log in and go to Appearance>>Themes and choose “LiveTwit Premium.”

Activate LiveTwit Premium and then look under the Appearance menu for the theme settings/options. There you sill see options for your new Tweet Stream. Fill in the blanks, check or uncheck the options you want/don’t want, click the button to save the settings and then go promote your Tweet Stream

Enjoy!

-Eric Odom

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6 Responses to “Start a live tweet stream at Blogivists”

  1. velvethammer Says:
    November 16th, 2009 at 1:21 pm

    “Appearance>>Themes and choose “LiveTwit Premium”
    I do not see “LiveTwit Premium” in my dashboard.

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  2. admin Says:
    November 16th, 2009 at 1:54 pm

    Strange, I just tested in several user accounts and can see it across all of them. The theme is available for all user levels and “should” be available in your theme choices.

  3. Garden State Patriot Says:
    November 23rd, 2009 at 4:25 pm

    Any way to have a Twit stream on the sidebar of an existing theme?

  4. krisgay Says:
    January 8th, 2010 at 4:15 pm

    Have some questions:

    1. Where can I find a spell check on my blog?

    2. I have been told by the Rochester MN City Council President that I don’t qualify to sit at the media table during council meetings. The spaces which are never completely used – sometimes at most two of the five chairs are used – are reserved only for radio, television and newspapers. This never came to a vote of the council nor is there a policy on this. Would like to know if anyone has a perspective on this.

    See my last two postings on how I am handling this. Would like suggestios on more things that I can do in response to this?

  5. Chris Arndt Says:
    January 13th, 2010 at 6:10 pm

    I keep getting this message: “The blog you have requested is not installed properly. Please contact the system administrator.”

    Why?

  6. Chris Arndt Says:
    January 13th, 2010 at 6:11 pm

    I am, of course, trying to access my dashboard, alter my profile, and re-rig the template on http://chrisarndt.blogivists.com

    That is, of course “The Crusade”

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