What this simple modification does is add a Twitter search feed to any thread that automatically searches for the thread title and displays it under the reply box. See here for example http://www.politicalgroove.com/showthread.php?19352-Twilight-New-Moon the thread title is Twilight New Moon and at the bottom of the thread you get a Twitter feed searching just that topic.

In the SHOWTHREAD template find:

{vb:raw similarthreads}


Add this above it:

<!-- Twiiter Comments -->
<h4 class="threadinfohead"><span class="optiontitle">Twiiter</span></h4>
<div id="thread_tags_list" class="thread_info_block">
<div class="inner_block">
<div id='tag_list_cell'>
<script src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js"></script>
<script>
new TWTR.Widget({
version: 2,
type: 'search',
search: '{vb:raw thread.title}',
interval: 6000,
title: 'Topic trending...',
subject: '{vb:raw thread.title}',
width: 'auto',
height: 300,
theme: {
shell: {
background: '#104963',
color: '#ffffff'
},
tweets: {
background: '#ffffff',
color: '#444444',
links: '#1985b5'
}
},
features: {
scrollbar: false,
loop: true,
live: true,
hashtags: true,
timestamp: true,
avatars: true,
behavior: 'default'
}
}).render().start();
</script>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<!-- /Twiiter Comments -->


Additionally, you can go here to customize the look and layout of the twitter widget http://twitter.com/goodies/widget_search However, if you do this make not of the bolded items above, those are the variables that hold pass the thread title into the search.