Problem with twitter button and timeline showing up?

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  tamaclagan · Member · Jan 22, 2015 at 12:44 am

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  In my connect with me widget on the side, I can’t get the twitter button to show up. It just shows up as text. I tried to get around that my putting in the Twitter Timeline widget but that’s not working either. Can you help me get at least one of these working? I’d rather just have the twitter button under connect with me but want it to look like a button not just text.

  Thanks for your assistance,
  Best,
  Tiffany

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  thatrobyn · Member · Jan 22, 2015 at 12:52 am

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  Hey there, Tiffany,

  I do see a working Twitter Timeline Widget on your site. This is what I am viewing:
  https://cloudup.com/cE15Qg7-R1O

  If you are hoping to add a Twitter follow widget, I want to make sure you’re using the shortcode here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/twitter/twitter-follow-button/

  If you’re having trouble with the shortcode, please let me know what code you’re using.

  You may also like to see these instructions on how to add social media buttons to your site:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/add-social-media-buttons-to-your-sidebar-or-footer/

  I hope this helps! If you have any other concerns, drop me a note. Thanks much!

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  tamaclagan · Member · Jan 22, 2015 at 1:26 am

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  Thank you…that’s really weird, what shows up on your screen is not what shows up on mine. Under ‘Follow Me on Twitter’ all it says is ‘my tweets’ and there’s nothing. You can’t even click on it. I can get it on my ipad but neither my desktop nor laptop. Do you know why that might be?

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  tamaclagan · Member · Jan 22, 2015 at 1:30 am

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  Hi again,

  Regarding the twitter button I’m using the shortcode [twitter-follow screen_name='tamaclagan'] and the button isn’t showing up? Just the text.

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  thatrobyn · Member · Jan 22, 2015 at 3:50 am

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  Hi again!

  Thank you…that’s really weird, what shows up on your screen is not what shows up on mine. Under ‘Follow Me on Twitter’ all it says is ‘my tweets’ and there’s nothing.

  It appears as if you’re currently using Safari on a Mac. Please take a look at the site via Firefox and Chrome. Let me know if you see anything different on these two browsers.

  If you are able to see your working widget on the other browsers, it may be some settings on Safari that are blocking your view.

  Regarding the twitter button I’m using the shortcode [twitter-follow screen_name='tamaclagan'] and the button isn’t showing up? Just the text.

  I temporarily added your shortcode, to see if it would work, and I do see it on my end:
  https://cloudup.com/cObDT5IsJXP

  I then deleted the button.

  Again, could you re-install your shortcode, and look at this in other browsers? Then we can determine if Safari is the issue.

  Looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks very much.