How will I (blog readers) be able to view my Twitter link in the side bar?

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  quantumqemistry · Member · Feb 6, 2014 at 9:14 am

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  I am unable to view my Twitter (Timeline) widgets in my blog sidelines. It just says Twitter did not respond, refresh in a few minutes, or the widget just gives the title name (eg. I have called one “Twitterbits” on my blog ingridvanamsterdam.wordpress.com, and underneath it says My Tweets underscored, but doesn’t give my Twitter name @IngridLoveArt and doesn’t link to anything. This applies to all blog names I have which have a Twitter widget.

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  eurello · Staff · Feb 6, 2014 at 6:50 pm

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  Hi Ingrid,

  You need to create a “widget ID” at Twitter and enter it in the widget. If you expand the widget, you’ll see some instructions and a link to where you can do this at Twitter.

  There are also instructions here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/twitter-timeline-widget/

  Let me know if you still have any trouble!

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  quantumqemistry · Member · Feb 6, 2014 at 7:13 pm

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  Yes I did all of that. You can have a look on my blog (as mentioned above if you like to see what I mean). But thank you for your reply!

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  eurello · Staff · Feb 6, 2014 at 7:17 pm

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  Hi Ingrid,

  When I check out your widget, there’s no widget ID in the widget ID field:
  

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  quantumqemistry · Member · Feb 6, 2014 at 8:48 pm

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  The widget ID disappeared every time I “save”

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  eurello · Staff · Feb 6, 2014 at 9:18 pm

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  What is the widget ID you’re entering?

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  quantumqemistry · Member · Feb 6, 2014 at 9:33 pm

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  Tweets by @IngridLoveLight
  <script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?’http’:’https’;if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+”://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,”script”,”twitter-wjs”);</script>

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  quantumqemistry · Member · Feb 6, 2014 at 9:34 pm

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  Then save.

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  quantumqemistry · Member · Feb 6, 2014 at 9:35 pm

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  Now did it again on my blog ingridvanamsterdam.wordpress.com. Still appears in the sideline as Twitterbits, underneath saying My Tweets.

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  eurello · Staff · Feb 6, 2014 at 11:35 pm

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  Hi Ingrid,

  That’s not what you need to put in there. It should be a string of only numbers, which you copy from the URL over at Twitter, as shown in the very first screencap in this document here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/twitter-timeline-widget/

  Just the numbers part of the URL, not the entire URL.

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  quantumqemistry · Member · Feb 7, 2014 at 12:20 am

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  AHA!!!!! Yes got it!!! Thank you! :)