Blogging Tips

It’s becoming increasingly popular to display your tweets (or some kind of Twitter widget) on your blog. When it comes to this, there are quite a few to choose from. Most of these widgets are easy to use and customizable. Of course, which one you use is entirely up to you. Let’s take a look at the options out there and see what we can find.

TwitterWind

• Uses Twitter OAuth to access your account.
• Customizable size and color.
• Lets you display your tweets or someone elses.

Twitter Trackbacks

• Integrates tweets that mentions your blog post link.
• Can be displayed as 2 types of bar widgets or a fixed list.
• Integrated retweet and reply links to encourage reader interaction.
• Only shows tweets from “highly influential” users (not sure if this is good or bad).
• You can display or hide parts of the tweets.

TheyFollowMe

• You’ll have to enter your username to access your account.
• Can be customized to show your friends or followers.
• Customizable number of columns, background color, amount of followers to display and thumbnail size.
• Very similar to Twitter Friends Widget and the Twitter Followers Widget.

Twitter for Blogger

• Can be added to your Blogger blog in one click.
• Customizable title and number of displayed tweets.
• Automatically picks up the style of your blog but can also be customized with CSS.

Tweetag

• Displays a single tweet.
• Automatically translates the URL of any tweet into a badge.
• Customizable coloring using hexadecimal color codes.
• Kind of similar to TwitStamp.

TwiBadge

• A WordPress plugin in widget format.
• Displays all of your tweets and @mentions.
• Customizable colors without the need for coding knowledge.
• There are a few other WordPress Twitter widgets here, here, here and here.

TwitGif

• The instructions are in Japanese.
• You only need to enter your username to get the actual widget.
• Not customizable, displays your avatar picture and scrolls through your tweets.

Official Twitter Widget

• Widgets that are available via Twitter.com
• You can get a widget for your website or Facebook; the Facebook widget is an application.
• There are 4 types of website widgets: profile, search, faves and list.
• Each website widget is customizable.

TwitterCounter

• Offers many other features besides a widget.
• Shows your face on thousands of blogs just by you signing in; lets the site owner know who has visited.
• Lets you send a tweet to and follow the widget owner.
• Customizable colors, widget and number of rows.

Now that you know what’s out there, which one do you prefer. If you’re already using a widget on your site or blog, which one are you  using? Feel free to share in the comments.