Twitter widget issue

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  rosalinddavis · Member · Apr 13, 2014 at 6:16 pm

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  Hi

  I created a twitter widget, saved it etc but its not showing on my blog. Have refreshed page etc.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 13, 2014 at 6:17 pm

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  Did you use this guide? http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/twitter-timeline-widget/

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  rosalinddavis · Member · Apr 13, 2014 at 6:27 pm

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  Thank you for a response. Yes I did try that a few times, but nothing shows up….

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  timethief · Member · Apr 13, 2014 at 6:30 pm

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  Are you sure you entered the correct twitter URL? If you entered an http:// URL try entering a https:// URL.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 13, 2014 at 6:31 pm

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  try entering https://twitter.com/rosalinddavis

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  rosalinddavis · Member · Apr 13, 2014 at 6:32 pm

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  thank you , shall try

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  rosalinddavis · Member · Apr 13, 2014 at 6:37 pm

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  Tried that as well as Twitter widget created in twitter and still nothing!…
  Its very frustrating. I thought wordpress was meant to be easy to use and stumbling at first hurdle and I know how to do all this normally.

  Tweets by @rosalinddavis
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  timethief · Member · Apr 13, 2014 at 6:41 pm

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  The widget provided by Twitter will not work here as you have noted. The Twitter Timeline Widget o to work though, so I’ll tag this thread for a Staff follow-up. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.

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  jackiedana · Member · Apr 18, 2014 at 12:14 am

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  The Twitter Timeline widget is a bit tricky because of the way Twitter creates the code.

  First, drag that widget into your sidebar. You will have a number of fields to fill in for design purposes, but the most important one is the code provided by Twitter.

  In the widget there’s a link to creating your timeline widget. You will go over to your Twitter page using that link and will set it up there. Then once you have saved your changes on Twitter, you need to look at the URL for the page you’re now on, which will look something like this:

  https://twitter.com/settings/widgets/456945627861103132/edit?focus_textarea=1&notice=WIDGET_CREATED

  In the box in the widget labeled “Widget ID: ( ? )” you will enter the number from that URL, in my case 456945627861103132, into that box.

  You do not want to copy the HTML code produced by Twitter, as that code will not work on WordPress.com.

  This document explains the steps with a couple of screenshots, and explains the other settings: http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/twitter-timeline-widget/