Twitter button, link inactive

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  danielberhane · Member · Jun 3, 2011 at 1:06 am

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  A WordPress Support post (http://en.support.wordpress.com/twitter-follow-button/) says that:

  I can simply copy and paste this short-code [twitter-follow screen_name='wordpressdotcom'] into a text widget, then it will ‘Display a Follow Button and a link to your Twitter page.’

  Of course, I changed the word ‘wordpressdotcom’ with my twitter name ‘danielberhane’

  Yet, as you can see on my blog(http://danielberhane.wordpress.com/) the Twitter button and link is inactive or not being properly displayed.

  Am I missing something here?

  Thanx.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  vivianpaige · Member · Jun 3, 2011 at 1:12 am

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  I see the follow button at the bottom of your Twitter feed. Have you tried clearing your cache?

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  danielberhane · Member · Jun 3, 2011 at 1:13 am

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  I put the text widget on the left sidebar below the recent posts list.

  My twitter name is ‘daniel_berhane’ – so I am not wrong on that regard.

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  danielberhane · Member · Jun 3, 2011 at 1:14 am

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  clear my cache?
  should I ?
  Let me try then

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  danielberhane · Member · Jun 5, 2011 at 6:57 am

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  No.
  I am referring to the the widget on the right side.
  The left column is not displayed in single posts.
  And I don’t want to put the Tweet feed on the right side.

  So, somebody please take a look at the right side column twitter button and tell me why it is inactive?
  Thanx.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 5, 2011 at 7:45 am

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  What widget did you use for that? It looks like a poorly-configured text widget.

  Also, you’ll want to reduce the amount of information on your blog page. It took forever to load for me, and I’m on a really excellent connection.

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  theemutsfeest · Member · Jun 5, 2011 at 1:54 pm

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  Mine isn’t working either. cach is empty, it looks great but doesn’t do anything…

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  danielberhane · Member · Jun 6, 2011 at 12:11 am

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  @Raincoaster

  I put this code – [twitter-follow screen_name='daniel_berhane'] (without the brackets) in the text widget.
  That is what suggested by this post – http://en.support.wordpress.com/twitter-follow-button/

  But It doesn’t work. I couldn’t figure it out why.
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  With regard to the Homepage of my blog, I don’t know how to reduce it.
  On the Settings > Reading > Blog page and Syndication feed: I set both at 10.
  But that didn’t change anything on the front page except that it reduced the number of posts on the author page(which is giving me another headache)

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  mmadfan · Member · Jun 6, 2011 at 3:43 am

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  I don’t use shortcodes much, but the couple I have used have had brackets. Try reinserting the brackets and see if that works.

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  pathunstrom · Member · Jun 8, 2011 at 11:04 pm

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  I had the same trouble, copied exactly (with the modification for my Twitter Handle) and got a dead link. I asked on Twitter, and three of the four people who checked had the same issue.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 8, 2011 at 11:30 pm

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  Perhaps the time has come for reporting this to Staff. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/