by Aaron Froehlich

*Feel free to browse the code from this tutorial in my sandbox repository at Drupal.org.

This tutorial is a follow-up to a recent article on Minimalist Drupal Development, where I made the case for judicious module selection as a strategy for keeping Drupal sites more performant and enjoyable to code. In this tutorial, I'll demonstrate how to create a Twitter timeline block using the Bean API. Ironically, a similar module appeared recently, called "Twitter Timeline" and released by Tom Kirkpatrick. The main difference here is that this solution relies on Drupal's cache and our own custom output rather than Twitter's widget system....