Drupal Twitter Tweets

This module fetches tweets and displays them in a Twitter Tweets block on the website. It is solely compatible with Drupal 8.x. The style of the block display can be changed. It will require a Twitter account and few details to proceed with. Read more in the documentation.

Requirements

This module requires the following prerequisites:

Steps to Create a New Twitter App:

1. A twitter account
2. To Create app at go to  https://apps.twitter.com/
3. Click on Create New App button
4. Fill in Application Details as:
   Name: Your app name, Description: , Website: Your site address (http://ip-address/ in case of local site) Callback URLs: Your site address/twitter/oauth (http://ip-address/twitter/oauth in case of local site)
5. Accept agreement and Click Create Twitter application
6. Click on Key and Access tokens tab and see the details required further:
   Consumer Key (API Key): *************************
   Consumer Secret (API Secret): *************************
7. Click on Create Access tokens on same tab as in step 5 and note down information required further:
   Access Token: *************************
   Access Token Secret: *************************

Installation

Install as you would normally install a contributed Drupal module.
Visit: https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/extending-drupal-8

Configuration

1. Enable the module
2. Go to admin/config/services/twitter-settings and fill the form with details generated by creating new application in Twitter as:
   Oauth Access Token: Access Token, Oauth Access Token Secret: Access Token Secret , Consumer Key: Consumer Key (API Key) , Consumer Secret: Consumer Secret (API Secret), Screen Name: UserName (Username of Twitter account), Tweet Count: Number of tweet feed to be shown in block
3. Go To admin/structure/block click on "Place Block" in the list blocks and  Find "Our Tweets" block and click "Place Block"

Credits

Maintainer - Tadepalli Krishna Priya (tkrishnapriya)
Maintainer - Sameer Kumar Choudhary (samhaldia)

Similar projects and how they are different

Twitter module is a much more generic solution to Twitter integration in Drupal. This is simple module, very lightweight, and doesn't require any dependencies to be installed to make it work. The Communication with twitter API is already addressed in the module.