A showcase of sites displaying twitter feeds

Twitter has saturated such a huge percentage of the design community in recent months. All you have to do these days is put Twitter in your blog post and you’re guaranteed to increase your sites visits. (Not the reason I’m writing this…honest.)

Anyway, Twitter has become so much a part of the design culture that nearly every new portfolio or blog is trying to incorporate it into their site. Some, have chosen to keep it simple and include just a link to their twitter page allowing people who decide they want to to follow them. However, some sites are taking advantage of Twitter’s very simple API to pull in their latest tweets onto the blog/portfolio.

The jury is still out for me if doing this has any more impact than a simple follow me link. I would say that either can be effective as long as they are well designed and catch the viewers attention.

I have put together a showcase of some of the best inclusions of twitter in recent weeks, to give you some ideas if you are thinking of including the same on your website.

I’d love to know what option you have chosen for your website and if including it on your site has increased your follower count so please leave a comment with your choice.

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Posted By atikusdesign on August 6, 2009

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12 Responses to this post

philipbeel said on August 7, 2009

Thanks for selecting my work! Great list!
Sleepy Hero said on August 7, 2009

http://www.shoponalbert.com has a cool one.
paul seys said on August 8, 2009

Nice collection of examples Mike. I’ve actually just taken the decision to remove my Twitter feed from my blog (shortboredsurfer.com) and just have a ‘follow me on Twitter’ link instead.
keke said on August 9, 2009

but in my contry,it’s very hard to use twitter.
Ryan Hamilton said on August 9, 2009

Nice compilation.

I’ve had a feed on my site for a while, but have recently resorted to using Simplepie to fetch the tweets because I’m much more comfortable in PHP than JS. I can also control the markup the way I’d like.
aravind said on August 9, 2009

Really nice collection.. :)
Elliott said on August 10, 2009

I have my latest tweet included at the top of a latest content display
Damian Herrington said on August 10, 2009

Great list! Really nice design integration.
Web Design Blog said on August 12, 2009

Nice collection of sites :)

May be in future posts could you write a tutorial on how to show Twitter feeds on wordpress blog?

Thanks
Ryan said on August 13, 2009

I’ve got one on my website, hopefully might give people some ideas as well: ryanmcdonough.co.uk
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