Bjørn Johansen

Twitter Widget for Embedded Timelines. Create one at https://twitter.com/settings/widgets first.
Use the official HTML widgets from Twitter (https://twitter.com/settings/widgets), but is WordPress-Widgetized and performance optimized so there’s only one script-element which is loaded in page footer, and the external JS is loaded on the window.load event.

Twttr Widget

kylehotchkiss

Tweet, tweet! What was that? You have a Twitter too? (Who doesn’t tweet these days?) So yeah, if you’re here, you probably have a WordPress install as well! Guess what, 
you’ve just found the collision! Sure, qTwit isn’t the only Twitter widget it out there, but it’s claim-to-fame is that it loads your Tweets on the client-side, meaning 
that it uses the <a href="http://tweet.seaofclouds.com" rel="nofollow ugc">jQuery plugin by Seaofclouds</a> to load your tweets. What does this mean for you? Well, several things:
<ul>
<li>Your tweets are always up-to-date, even with that super-cool caching plugin you just installed!</li>
<li>Your server isn’t coughing up blood from exhaustion loading the tweets by itself all the time!</li>
<li>You can say your blog is powered by jQuery, because everybody knows how legit that is.</li>
</ul>
AND, we can’t forget that Seaofclouds threw in some goodies that pass on to you:
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Small size and fast download time.</li>
<li>Will not slow down or pause your page while Tweets are loading.</li>
<li>Automatic linking of @replies to users’ Twitter page.</li>
<li>Automatic linking of URLs.</li>
<li>Automatic linking of #hashtags, to a Twitter search of all your tags.</li>
<li>Converts <3 to a CSS styleable ♥.</li>
<li>Makes awesome text, AWESOME text with AWESOMEIZER.</li>
</ul>
– the Seaofclouds webpage
</blockquote>
So there you have it, go ahead and click “Install” now!
**If you appreciate this plugin, I (<a href="http://twitter.com/kylehotchkiss/" rel="nofollow ugc">@kylehotchkiss</a>) and Seaofclouds (<a href="http://twitter.com/seaofclouds/" rel="nofollow ugc">@seaofclouds</a>) would love a tweet saying so!*

qTwit (for WordPress)

qTwit is a Wordpress widget that loads Tweets (from Twitter) on the client-side, via jQuery, as opposed to on the server.

Twttr Widget vs qTwit (for WordPress)