When we started redesigning the Pop Art blog, one of the chief requirements was to integrate everyone’s Twitter feeds into the site. In addition to the Pop Art Twitter feed in the sidebar, we wanted to add individual twitter feeds on the profile pages. The problem is that the javascript code that Twitter provides can only be called once in a single page, or it gets confused.
Since we were switching to WordPress, I checked out a bunch of Twitter plugins, but ultimately found them all to be unreliable or just missing features. In the end, I hacked together one of my own, based heavily on code by Ryan Barr. His PHP script was very nearly perfect, but I ran into three problems.