Twitter Badge Widget

Provides a twitter badge widget that you can place on your wordpress site to display tweets from a specific twitter user.

Author:Andy Clark, Brandon Camenisch, Jason Bahl (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:2.8
WordPress version tested:3.4.2
Plugin version:1.75
Added to WordPress repository:02-06-2011
Last updated:23-10-2012
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
Rating, %:76
Rated by:14
Plugin URI:http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-b...
Total downloads:43 638
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*This plugin has been adopted by PluginChief under the Plugin Recycle program for more information go to pluginchief.com all of your favorite plugins will be kept up to date on the wordpress repository.

The widget takes a twitter username (screen name) and the number of tweets to display.

Features

  • The time that the tweet was made is formatted in a friendly style.
  • The users, urls and hashtags are all linked from the tweets.
  • The current version will display between 1 and 200 tweets.
  • The title is optional and if entered will display in the usual style for titles, it is suppressed if not entered.
  • There are two choices of layout, a narrow format for sidebars this is the default and a wide format for a banner shaped display which can be used on the top of pages.
  • The follow can be a simple text link or an interactive button with count.
  • Clientside cache with defaut of 1 minutes so that twitter rates are not exceeded.