Tweetcloud widget is cool…but broken

January 14th, 2010 by Derek Anderson Leave a reply »

Happened upon tweetcloud after searching twitter for widgets.

tweetcloud.com offers exactly what you would think. The top trending Twitter topics in a standard Tag Cloud format. When you click on a topic, the most recent Tweets are loaded below the “tweetcloud”.

tweetcloud as you can see below, tweetcloud delivers everything…even some unsavory items.

tweetcloud widget

The tweetcloud widget was constructed utilizing the Clearspring widget platform. The widget displays a mini tweetcloud and when you click on one of the trending topics in the cloud, you are given a list (right in the widget) of the latest tweets on that topic.

Unfortunately, when you click the “back to cloud” button at the top of the widget…nothing happens. You don’t get to go “back to cloud”. You are stuck, unless you refresh the page.

I don’t know the solution because I don’t program JavaScript. But I’m sure its probably pretty simple.

You can see the widget at tweetcloud.com

You can also find the widget at the super secret Clearspring hidden tweetcloud widget page.

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  1. Pablo says:

    Hi Derek,
    Thanks for such a cool review and for bringing up this issue. It is now solved, you should be able to toggle back and forth between Tweetcloud and comments with no problems.

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