Two conflicting versions of jquery will give you major headaches. I solved the problem by disabling my plugin’s reliance on it’s own jquery lib altogether. I just relied on bp’s jquery lib which was newer. I don’t know of any other way to solve the issue. Apps that rely on js do not play well together.
Just to follow up on this for anyone wanting to try NewsTweet. It works fine now that I’ve updated the PHP cURL Library.
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