Peter Wilson

Display your latest tweets in a WordPress widget without slowing your 
website.
The Rapid Twitter Widget doesn’t apply any styling to your website, giving 
you complete control over the look.
Tweets and your content are loaded separately to ensure a delayed response 
from Twitter doesn’t slow down your website.
Now compatibile with Version 1.1 of the Twitter API.
<a href="http://app.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">App.net</a> users might like the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rapid-adn-widget/">Rapid ADN Widget</a>.
<h3>Development on GitHub</h3>
Development of this plugin is taking place in a 
<a href="https://github.com/peterwilsoncc/rapid-twitter-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a>.
Only tagged releases will be added to the WordPress.org svn repository.

Rapid Twitter Widget

Display tweets from one or more Twitter accounts using a WordPress widget. Compatible with version…

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Important notice: Twitter shut down their v1 API and use now the v1.1, to update your mini twitter feed you need to go on https://twitter.com/settings/widgets/new create a new widget and get your Twitter widget ID. You can update the id on the shortcode or widget. ([minitwitter id=”TWITTER_WIDGET_ID” username=”YOUR_USERNAME”] or in the field “id” in the widget section). 
You get this Twitter Widget ID from the code provided by Twitter when you create this widget: data-widget-id=”TWITTER_WIDGET_ID” or in the URL https://twitter.com/settings/widgets/TWITTER_WIDGET_ID/edit.
The plugin “mini Twitter feed” or twitter timeline puts Twitter on your WordPress blog, you can add your tweets or the tweets from the folks you like, lists, queries…
You can display up to 100 tweets within 7 days (limit set by Twitter’s Search API).
It displays tweets from your feed or from the Twitter Search, from a list or from your favorite users. It is very flexible and modular.

Mini twitter feed

Embed your twitter feed or the twitter timeline from your favorite users on your Wordpress blog. Shortcodes and widgets are used.

Rapid Twitter Widget vs Mini twitter feed