Compliance to W3C standards is important step to search engine optimisation. For those using XHTML transitional code it is necessary to correct the code provided by Twitter in order to validate.
If you are using the old Twitter widget it does not validate. It is very easily corrected see post by Winning Inch.
But what is more concerning is that Twitter have updated their widget generator and it is more complex to correct. You will need to edit the Twitter code as indicated below. Essentially the supplied code errors are in red and the correction is black:
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<div id="twtr-profile-widget"></div>
1. Add missing declaration: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/1/widget.js"></script> to the following bad code:
<script src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/1/widget.js"></script>
2. Move the following CSS link to the head section of your webpage anywhere between <head> and </head> tags:
<link href="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/1/widget.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
3. Last bit is to add the declaration: <script type="text/javascript"> to the following:
<script>
new TWTR.Widget({
profile: true,
id: 'twtr-profile-widget',
loop: true,
width: 250,
height: 300,
theme: {
shell: {
background: '#3082af',
color: '#ffffff'
},
tweets: {
background: '#ffffff',
color: '#444444',
links: '#1985b5'
}
}
}).render().setProfile('svcswebdesign').start();
</script>
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What about moving the <script> portion to the head? I can't seem to get that to work, even after adding the attribute id: which was, not vanilla.
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