My (@subdigit) twitter list cloud.
My (@subdigit) twitter list cloud.

Note: If you don’t see something similar to the above image in the sidebar section, then it’s either broken or it could mean that I’m tinkering with the script that generates the cloud. Check back again later and hopefully it’ll be there.

I mentioned this in a tweet just a touch back and now I’ve ended up taking on my own bet.

Listed in the sidebar of this blog is a tag cloud based on my twitter account’s “lists following you” section. The cloud is implemented as a wordpress plugin that hits the lists API, grabs all the lists people have put you in, extracts the slug (the list name) and creates a simple tag cloud. The plugin isn’t quite ready for release yet since there’s a few things I need to clean up, like figuring out twitter credential storage for hitting the protected lists API (not understanding why that needs to be a protected API).

I’ll try to get it out there sometime reasonably soon (if anyone wants to help, let me know). Along with the lists data, the plugin can also pull other basic twitter information associated with your profile (like following: 565, followers: 488, updates: 5399, favorites: 7) that you can use a tag to embed into your post content, should you want that sort of thing.

Was a fun first time foray in the world of wordpress plugins, twitter APIs, and php…

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