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…

Prasanna SP

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Twiget Twitter Widget lets you display your latest twitter status updates in any of the widgetized areas. Just add the Twiget Twitter Widget to your sidebar or any of the widget areas and enter your twitter username. It will display your latest tweets along with a follow @username button to make it easier for people to follow you! You can configure widget title, twitter username, number of tweets to display, link target etc, in the widget configuration.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Twitter API 1.1 support</li>
<li>Twitter requests caching with auto-optimised duration for performance</li>
<li>AJAX-based so your site’s load time is not affected by Twitter’s server</li>
<li>Multiple instances of widget</li>
<li>Option to change widget title</li>
<li>Option to change number of tweets to display</li>
<li>Option to show followers count, profile picture, and Twitter bio</li>
<li>Option to show twitter client used. Eg: via Twitter for Android</li>
<li>Option to open links in a new window</li>
<li>Option to hide @replies</li>
<li>Linkified @usernames and #hashtags</li>
</ul>
Twiget is developed by <a href="http://www.khairul-syahir.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Syahir Hakim</a> of <a href="http://www.graphene-theme.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Graphene Theme</a> and <a href="http://www.prasannasp.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Prasanna SP</a>.
Translation: If you want to translate this plugin to your language, please find the twiget.pot file in /languages/ folder.
Demo: See demo of this plugin <a href="http://demo.prasannasp.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>. It is the second item in the sidebar.
Support: Please post your support questions at Twiget Twitter Widget plugin <a href="http://forum.prasannasp.net/forum/plugin-support/twiget/" rel="nofollow ugc">support forum</a>.
Visit <a href="http://www.prasannasp.net/wordpress-plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">this page</a> for more WordPress Plugins by the developer.
This plugin uses Abraham’s [twitteroauth library] (https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth‎/).

Twiget Twitter Widget

A widget to display the latest Twitter status updates.

Rapid Twitter Widget vs Twiget Twitter Widget