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…

f13dev

With ‘WP Twitter profile’ you can add a mini version of your twitter profile to your WordPress site as a widget.
What can this widget show:
<ul>
<li>Your profile picture and banner image, layed out similar to the Twitter sidebar</li>
<li>Your real name as it is held by Twitter and your @username</li>
<li>A follow link to your profile</li>
<li>The number of tweets, subscribers and subscribed for your profile</li>
<li>Your recent tweets (including rich content with Twitter links for hashtags and @username, URLs and img tags for images uploaded to Twitter)</li>
<li>CSS styling depending on the colour scheme used on your Twitter profile</li>
</ul>
Note: This plugin requires the use of cURL to be installed and active on the web server
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Twitter profile widget

With 'WP Twitter profile' you can add a mini version of your twitter profile to your Wordpress site as a widget.

Rapid Twitter Widget vs Twitter profile widget