Displaying your Twitter tweets on your Google Sites website is difficult. Google Sites filters your HTML code and doesn't allow you to add your own JavaScript code. That means you can't add the many existing Twitter widgets that exist today, including Twitter's very own.
There's a Twitter gadget in the Google Gadget directory called "Twit". I was previously using it, but because it uses http
instead of https
and Google Sites uses https
, the latest version of Chrome would consider it as insecure content and not display it by default, instead asking the user if they want to display insecure content while recommending them not to. That's great if you want your visitors to think your site hosts malicious content and you don't want them reading your tweets.
So this was my solution, and hopefully it benefits others with the same problem:
- I haven't added this gadget to the Google Gadget Directory, so either host it yourself or (pr