Easily create HTML links for Twitter hashtags, usernames, and URLs from the text of a tweet.
Select the element that contains the tweet text and run the .tweetLinks() method on it:
<p class="tweet">Getting ready for another day at #hogwarts. I hope @ronweasley did his homework. twitpic.com/b2y3un</p>
<script>
$('.tweet').tweetLinks();
</script>The text of the tweet will be converted to:
<p class="tweet">Getting ready for another day at <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=&23hogwarts" title="Twitter / Search - #hogwarts">#hogwarts</a>. I hope <a href="http://twitter.com/ronweasley" title="@ronweasley on Twitter">@ronweasley</a> did his homework. <a href="http://twitpic.com/b2y3un">twitpic.com/b2y3un</a></p>Copyright (c) 2013 Monika Hoex
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Thanks to Tim Kempf for helping me write my first plugin and answering my never-ending stream of questions.