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Add twitter to SharePoint 2013 page

To add twitter feed to SharePoint 2013 site, do the following steps
  • Go to the page  Twitter settings and sign-in with your account
  • Click on Create New button, next to widgets.
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  • Enter the account for which the feed has to be setup and do customization's if  required.
  • Click on Create Widget.  Copy and paste the code to a notepad.
  • Open the SharePoint site in which the twitter has to be displayed
  • Click on Edit Page - Add webpart and add Script Editor webpart
  • Click on Edit Snippet and add the code from the notepad
  • Save the page and the feed would start appearing


To share and connect via twitter, there are few buttons provided by twitter. The same can be added to SharePoint site to increase the traffic to the website
  • Go to the url https://about.twitter.com/resources/buttons
  • To share the page using twitter, click on Share a link
  • Enter the required information and copy the code
  • Open the SharePoint site and click on edit page
  • Insert a Script editor webpart and add the code in the webpart
  • Save the page and twitter icon starts appearing in the page.


Note - -To know how to add Google+ icon, check here

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