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Display creation date of Twitter tweets

By Johan van Soest.

Published : 2014-01-27.

Last updated : 2017-05-02.

Tim Acheson provides a free ASPtwitter library to display authenticated tweets. You can get it here : http://WWW.timacheson.com/Blog/2013/jun/asptwitter. This library exposes but does not show the creation date of the tweets. To format the tweet creation date I have written the following function, that I publish on request:

  Function funcConvertDate(strDate)
  	' function to retrieve only wanted bits of the strDate
	' (C)Copyright 2013 - 2025 by J.P.G. van Soest [www.vanSoest.it]
	' input string containing a date format e.g. "Tue Jul 16 08:13:59 +0000 2013"
	' Output "16 Jul 2013"
	funcConvertDate = Mid(strDate,9,3) & Mid(strDate,4,5) & Right(strDate,4)
  End Function

You can call this function in your ASP page as:

Tweet date: <%= funcConvertDate(oTweet.created_at) %>

Update the ASPtwitter library so it also shows https links.

Change the regex Pattern code in the function URLsBecomeLinks so it resembles the code below.

  Function URLsBecomeLinks(sText)
	'  Wrap URLs in text with HTML link anchor tags.
	Dim objRegExp
	Set objRegExp = New RegExp
' 	objRegExp.Pattern = "(http://[^\s<]*)"                  ' *** Original did not do https://
	objRegExp.Pattern = "(https?://[^\s<]*)"		' *** changed 11-05-2015 Johan van Soest
	objRegExp.Global = True
	objRegExp.ignorecase = True
	UrlsBecomeLinks = "" & objRegExp.Replace(sText, "<a href=""$1"" target=""_blank"">$1</a>")
	Set objRegExp = Nothing
  End Function

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