---
title: "Add a Twitter @anywhere hovercard to links containing tweeps"
url: "http://andrewbolster.info/2010/04/add-a-twitter-@anywhere-hovercard-to-links-containing-tweeps/"
date: "2010-04-17T21:13:04Z"
tags: ["JavaScript","Social Media","Web Development"]
categories: ["Instructional"]
---

Everyone and their dog has a walkthrough of adding @anywhere hovercards to your blog. But the default has a small failing that irked me when I was re-doing my Blogroll (check them out, they’re all great! I promise!), and that was that if you take a tweep, like @god for example, it’ll happily wrap the hovercard around it, but if you have a link to this [great status that @god posted](http://twitter.com/god/status/11603782129), @anywhere won’t pick this @god up.

Quick and dirty solution; add the following code-block inside your

```
onAnywhereLoad(twitter)
```

section of script.

> ```
> twitter("a").hovercards({
infer=true
});
> ```

Then thats you done! No muss, no fuss. Thanks go to @stuartgibson for help. If I’ve missed anything, scream at me in the comments or @bolster

**Update** Of course I’d missed something; this unfortunately makes @anywhere inspect every link on your site, including navigational ones, so for my usecase (blogroll), i modified my code to only infer when inside the id of my blogroll, ie

> ```
> twitter("#linkcat-2 a").hovercards({
infer=true
});
> ```

YMMV