How do I add a twitter feed to my wordpress site?

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  swinderlich · Member · Jul 30, 2014 at 8:41 am

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  all the “help” keeps telling me to select the twitter timeline widget but there is no such widget. Where is it? Surely there are clear steps somewhere on how to do this?
  Thanks for any help you can give me.

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  elzrjose · Member · Jul 30, 2014 at 8:45 am

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  Hi swinderlich,

  You can add the Twitter Timeline Widget to your sidebar from Appearance → Widgets page. On the Widgets page, scroll down to find the Twitter Timeline. Click it and then click Add Widget.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/twitter-timeline-widget/

  Hope this helps. :)

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  swinderlich · Member · Jul 30, 2014 at 11:46 am

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  Thanks elzrjose.
  However there is no Twitter Timeline widget available on my widgets page. I have searched many times. Any other ideas? Cheers

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  swinderlich · Member · Jul 30, 2014 at 11:49 am

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  oops I just found it…. sorry, I looked up and down that page so many times … not sure how I missed but yaay it’s there.

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  swinderlich · Member · Jul 30, 2014 at 12:10 pm

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  Any way so I added the Twitter Timeline widget (that worked) 2I created and added the widget id as instructed but now there is a widget on my page but no tweets showing. Will it automatically show the last twets or do I have to tweet something new for it to activate?

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 30, 2014 at 12:30 pm

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  It does not look like you have put in the correct ID. Either that or your tweet stream is protected and if so, nothing will ever show. What exactly did you put in the widget?

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  swinderlich · Member · Jul 30, 2014 at 12:54 pm

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  Thanks, I went to twitter-settings-widgets-create new-create widget-then copied the code. That is the code that I pasted into the widget.

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  swinderlich · Member · Jul 30, 2014 at 1:25 pm

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  Thanks for your help elzrjose and raincoaster. I found my mistake. Couldn’t have done it without you.