22/03/2009
Update!! Yahoo did the same dick move of cockblocking Flash. :/ To remedy this the URLRequest on line 80 had to be changed. If your project used to work but doesn’t anymore; Try this. If this is your first time here; Ignore this message.
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Ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
So, I saw that I’m still getting some traffic to this post where I suggested a solution to the Twitter crossdomain.xml problem.
The Yahoo pipes solution still works fine, but my code is a godawful mess and I decided I’d have to fix it up a bit. The methodology is essentially the same. We’ll be using this yahoo pipe, but it’s neatly blackboxed so that you just need to know your Twitter ID to use this class.
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18/04/2008
Attention!
This code was written by a far less awesome version of me and using it is strongly discouraged. You should go here and use that code instead. Do it. You’ll thank me.
I’m an avid user of Twitter. I’m also a Flash developer so it figures I had created a Twitter badge in Flash to display on my old blog. I even had a tutorial on how to do it. The thing is; Twitter all of a sudden decided to close off their feeds to Flash. By changing their crossdomain.xml the pretty much messed up any Flash apps out there talking to Twitter. A tad frustrating, but oh well.
This just means we’ll have to be a bit more creative when we create Twitter stuff. To get the Actionscript and the clever solution for the cross domain issue, read on.
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