How to Add Twitter Widget To Your Blog

Add a Twitter Profile/Timeline widget to your blog.

Twitter is a social network site where users can find updates and send tweets, these are short messages and posts. This post will show you how to create a Twitter profile widget for your Twitter account on your blog. This widget allows your viewers to view your tweets from your blog and by clicking on the widget it will redirect them to your Twitter profile where they can follow you, so when you are not posting anything on your blog and you are posting on Twitter they can read your tweets from your blog.

Firstly, login to your twitter account and hover over to your profile image and click onto settings. When you click on settings a list will appear on the left side of the screen from the list click onto widgets. Then click on create new following the steps below.

This will then take you to the widget maker page, and it will ask what type of widget do you want to make, if you want to make your profile widget to display your tweets that would be the embedded timeline or you can click on a profile and enter your twitter profile url.

After you have clicked on the type of widget you want, you will see it will display a preview of what the widget will look like. The widget may look big so you may want to customise it by clicking on set customization options. This will then give you editing options like shown below. I changed the size of my widget to height 250 and width 290 because I wanted it to be small you can choose the size you want. You can also change the colour of the tweets and the language. When you have changed the settings click on update.

It will then display the code which you have to copy, click on copy code and it will automatically copy it for you. Then go back to your blog and click on Layout, and Add a Gadget where you want to place the Twitter widget from there click on HTML/JavaScript and enter the code and click save and save arrangement.