Showing a TwitPic thumbnail in your AS

Hi there,

if you use TwitPic to post photos to Twitter you probably would like to show a thumbnail in your Action Stream. Here is how I did it.

First you need the good old Regex Plugin from Brad Choate (http://www.bradchoate.com/weblog/2002/07/27/mtregex). Then you need to define a regular expression like this:

s!(.*)(http://twitpic.com[^\s!g

Later you can treat Tweets that contain the word 'twitpic' like this

And you will get a nice thumbnail with a link to the proper TwitPic page.

PS I don't know if the regular expression is elegant. It works, but maybe someone can tweak it a little bit.

Regards, Yves