How to accomplish scrolling text on Twitter home page?

Question

Hi, On the twitter home page (not logged in), there a scrolling text in the middle below the logo. How is this accomplished? It stops scrolling when mouseover and also has a popup dialog on relevant text. Thanks, Mike

Answer 1

There is a jQuery marquee plugin that will give you a good head start. It shouldn't be difficult to build the tooltip stuff on top of that.

Answer 2

There are many ways you could accomplish it, but I imagine its using Ajax to fill an HTML div with the results of a call to Twitter's Services. Its then probably using JQuery to scroll the div, as well as display those fancy tooltips.

Answer 3

I just looked at this in Firebug.

The topics are being loaded via JSON and the Twitter API and then they are calling fronts.js (http://a2.twimg.com/a/1272578449/javascripts/fronts.js) in association with jQuery.