Twitter widget is it damaging your website?

Compliance to standards is a basic requirement for website / search engine optimisation.  In a recent exercise around this issue we discovered that the Twitter website widget is not actually compliant.  As such this means that your entire web page/e, where you have the widget, may be forcing non compliance and therefore damaging your website's performance.

To check your website for compliance http://validator.w3.org%20target=/and enter your website address in the box

It is however really easy to fix.  Within the code of your page where the Twitter widget is you will find this line of code:

<ul id="twitter_update_list">ul> This the culprit. So just add
<li></li> so that is looks like this:
<ul id="twitter_update_list"><li></li></ul>

That is it. You are done.

If the W3C is still showing problems after fixing this one or if you want help to fix it give us a call or send us an e-mail.