It could be said that 2009 was finally the year for Twitter to become mainstream and with that many changes came straight from them that were long long overdue. Starting with the Official Flash Widget and not that long ago with the additions of new Javascript Widgets.

So now you can finally get a proper Twitter Profile Widget in Javascript:

Twitter Profile Widget

And the other change that came to twitter recently was a refocus to search and being “The pulse of the planet” (Twitter own words) for the web. So Twitter changed their homepage from a very reminiscent “Blogger Like”  homepage to one in the style of a Search Engine. So they also got a semi-real time Twitter Search Widget:

Twitter Search Widget

Both widgets work exactly the same the only difference is that the search one will look for a open query as a word, phrase or #hashtag. And the profile one only looks for the query “from:username” to display only your personal twitter updates and has a little username picon (personal/photo icon) and username tag at the top. They also come with the very same options. So you can choose size and color for them and decide if you want results to be displayed in a loop or not. I find that a little bit disappointing, but twitter has always had the pretext of being “simple” and “minimalistic” to go by. So not much use to criticize them if they deliver just that.

Still a good thing to have and to add to your blog if you use Twitter.

Twitter Website Widgets