Yup! Now that Mr. Max has let the cat outta the bag on making external requests, I have finally hooked up my (very basic so far) first Twitter app.

Go'head... check it out:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=31517887

And here is the app profile:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=314047011

No use any of you installing it unless you want to show my twitter updates on your page.

;-} 

well... looks like I really do suck at Web UI.

My tweet dates show-up like this in IE:
NaN/NaN/NaN NaN:NaN:NaN PM

and fine in Firefox:
1/16/2008 9:22:47 PM 

ideas anyone...? 

So we can install this app to keep track of Robbie's status...lol. 

Can you make it work on Viewer - so I can stalk myself?

Allen

of course!

it just doesn't have any persistance to store user settings like Twitter screen name and all yet.

once i get that all wired up, the plan is for the canvas version to be a widget management app and give a user access to common twitter tasks, and for the profile view to be one of 3 different feed views set by the user.

robbiecoleman:

well... looks like I really do suck at Web UI.

My tweet dates show-up like this in IE:
NaN/NaN/NaN NaN:NaN:NaN PM

and fine in Firefox:
1/16/2008 9:22:47 PM 

ideas anyone...? 

finally figured it out.

twitter uses a date format like: "Tue Jan 22 08:24:03 +0000 2008"

and IE needs this: "Tue Jan 22 2008 08:24:03 +0000"

to parse my local time of: 1/22/2008 12:24 AM

so... my jankey little javascript to parse and re-format twitter status.created_at values looks like this:

// where 'dateStr' is a twitter status.created_at
// and 'sb' is a Sys.StringBuilder
function FormatAndAppendDate(dateStr, sb) {
    // twitter: Tue Jan 22 02:34:33 +0000 2008
    //      IE: Tue Jan 22 2008 02:34:33 +0000
    var yearStr = dateStr.substr(dateStr.length - 4, 4);
    var preDateStr = dateStr.substr(0, 20);
    var dateStrFixed = preDateStr + yearStr + " +0000";
   
    var postDate = new Date(dateStrFixed);
   
    var curr_month = postDate.getMonth();
    curr_month++;
   
    var a_p = '';
    var curr_hour = postDate.getHours();
   
    if (curr_hour < 12)
       a_p = 'AM';
    else
       a_p = 'PM';
    if (curr_hour == 0)
       curr_hour = 12;
    if (curr_hour > 12)
       curr_hour = curr_hour - 12;
   
    var curr_min = postDate.getMinutes();
    curr_min = curr_min + '';

    if (curr_min.length == 1)
        curr_min = "0" + curr_min;
   
    var curr_sec = postDate.getSeconds();
    curr_sec = curr_sec + '';

    if (curr_sec.length == 1)
        curr_sec = "0" + curr_sec;

    sb.append(curr_month);
    sb.append('/');
    sb.append(postDate.getDate());
    sb.append('/');
    sb.append(postDate.getFullYear());
    sb.append(' ');
    sb.append(curr_hour);
    sb.append(':');
    sb.append(curr_min);
    sb.append(':');
    sb.append(curr_sec);
    sb.append(' ');
    sb.append(a_p);
}