You must be aware on how to display the Facebook Fans on any web page. It’s very popular that all the bloggers are displaying it on their blogs and websites, it makes then grow their social network relation and appear more big. Nevertheless you can consider Twitter as a less known network. Just like the Facebook Fans display widgets you can display the Twitter followers in a widget format.
The WordPress plugin by name ‘Twitter Fans’ allows you to display twitter followers in the sidebar as a normal WordPress widget just like the Facebook Like Box. Since it displays the followers of your Twitter account it’s called as ‘Twitter Fans Widget’. The widget will finally look like this on your blog-
This widget right now is only for blogs on WordPress and this shows the number of followers, link to follow you and your followers avatars. unlike other WordPress plugins which ask for password of your twitter account, Twitter Fans just ask your username. It is more customizable which lets you change border background and the color of the widget.
This WordPress plugin can be directly downloaded by searching Twitter Fans in the plugins through your admin control panel and also can be found in WordPress plugin directory.
- How to Install and Configure
- Unzip the pack or install the plugin.
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Go to Widgets and now you will find a new widget called as “Twitter Fans”. As you know that widgets works like Drag and Drop, drag it and place it where you want to appear in your theme or sidebar.
As you soon as you drop it, the widget will ask you to provide your Twitter username and all other options for embedding.
This plugin does not work automatically updated whenever we have new followers. It must be done manually. Therefore, I uninstalled it.