Twitter WebPart for SharePoint
Why use the Twitter Web Part? Twitter offers a free widget for displaying tweets in another web site. This widget periodically asks Twitter for any new results. However, if Twitter receives too many requests from a particular server it labels that server as a nuisance and temporarily stops replying to it. This is known as “Rate Limiting”. Unfortunately, it’s quite common for organisations to route their Internet traffic through one gateway server, which appears to Twitter as if it is being a nuisance and making too many requests. Some SharePoint customers found that that Twitter widget would stop working as they were being rate limited. The Twitter web part avoids this problem by adding a cache to SharePoint, so that far fewer requests are sent to Twitter. We also found that some organisations had prevented their network users from accessing the Internet, which would stop the Twitter widget from working. With the Twitter web part it is the SharePoint farm that is making the request to the Internet, so if it has access to the Internet, it can bring back content from Twitter for users. The Twitter Web Part is available for SharePoint 2007 or SharePoint 2010. |
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Take a look at our short demonstration. Chris Corke of Deltasheme takes you through the main functions and features of Swift Scan for a SharePoint
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