As the Internet evolves, PBworks evolves with it. You can see this evolution at work in the plugins we include in the product. For a long time, we’ve had two product-specific plugins: YouTube and Skype. We’ve just added a third: Twitter.
In one sense, we don’t really need to add product-specific plugins. We have generic plugins like the RSS plugin or the HTML/JavaScript plugin that make it possible to embed just about any widget you want. But using these generic plugins requires fiddling around with long and complex-looking URLs and scripts. Therefore, when a product becomes (a) ubiquitous and (b) is clearly here for the long haul, we look into adding a product-specific plugin.
By anyone’s measures, Twitter now clearly qualifies on both counts.
The new Twitter plugin makes it easy to embed either a Twitter feed or search results on a wiki page, with cool Twitter formatting and colors. For all the details, check out the user manual.
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