Twitter now offering live updating Twitter widget

Makers of Twitter widgets are committing ritual suicide across the world today with news that Twitter has just released its own, live updating Twitter widget.

The live updating widget allows users to add a Twitter stream to their site based on a search query. The widget can be customized by size and color, and users can loop old results in the widget.

The closest offering to this widget currently available is from Monitter, a service that requires the installation of script and code before even getting to the widget, which in our experience isn’t very reliable either. Other widget makers don’t offer live updates, making Twitter’s offering even more appealing.

An example of the widget as follows, and you can set up your own widget here.

new TWTR.Widget({
search: ‘twitter widget’,
id: ‘twtr-search-widget’,
loop: true,
title: ‘What’s being said about…’,
subject: ‘Twitter Widget’,
width: 500,
height: 300,
theme: {
shell: {
background: ‘#ad3030’,
color: ‘#ffffff’
},
tweets: {
background: ‘#ffffff’,
color: ‘#444444’,
links: ‘#1985b5’
}
}
}).render().start();