A TB shortcode to create content from fav'ed Tweets

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At the moment I need a plugin which enables me to create posts from favorited tweets.

I can see, that TB has the ability to create an archive page and to display tweets from selected users and this gave me the idea.

Person X live tweets from an interesting conference which runs for three days - 80 % of his tweets are relevant and 20 % are personal chat. In order to be able to filter out the 20% I choose to mark the 80% as favorites.

So what I suggest is a short code which enables me to create a blog post of tweets based on the following parameters:
1) The feed url for my Twitter Favorites
2) FROM person (optional)
3) FROM time/date (optional)
4) TO time/date (optional)

That way I can create say a seperate blog post per day the conference runs (using FROM and TO time), which only displays those of my favorite tweets that are from person X.

This should of course work in the manner of an archive page, so the content doesn't disappear, when the tweets are no longer on Twitter.
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Esben Rasmussen

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Kirill N

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Thanks for the great idea! I'll definitely consider it.

There is already a Favorites widget in the plugin that uses the Favorites feed for the users you specify. So the way I'd implement it is as follows:

1) Add 3 new fields to the Favorites widget so it shows:
- Field "Pull tweets favorited by" where you can supply one or more screen names. This would be required and you'd put your twitter user name there
- Field "Sources to include" where you'd put one or more screen names whose tweets would be included. Optional
- Field "After date" with a calendar popup. Optional
- Field "Before date" with a calendar popup. Optional

2) Create <form> notation embed support similar to what is available for the main widget (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/t...)

Caching is already there so tweets won't disappear even if they are removed on Twitter.
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Esben Rasmussen

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That sounds exactly like what I need.
I really hope you chose to add this, because that would definately make my life so much easier.