Twitter Search Widget can keep your website or blog updated with the Twitter search keyword of your choice.

If you have a website or a blog then irrespective of if you use Twitter or not you’d find having a Twitter update widget on your sidebar (or wherever it is) very handy. There are many different ways to bring your Twitter updates to your website sidebar but if you’d rather want to keep an eye on Twitter for a keyword specific to your website or blog then Twitter Search Widget would come in really handy.

Twitter Search Widget allows you to embed a small widget (you can customize to your need) that keeps an eye on a keyword (specific to your website, may be) and brings updates to your website or blog’s sidebar.

Visit Twitter Search Widget page. You’d see 3 ways to customize your own Twitter Search Widget.

On the Settings tab you can enter the search query that you want Twitter Search Widget to keep an eye on. You can also enter a Title and a Caption (the top first and second lines on your widget) and can indicate if you want to loop the old results.

Apart from simple search queries you can also use Twitter’s advanced search queries, like for example, #dotnet for results containing the hash tag “dotnet”, @Askar for results that contains my name, near:Harrisburg within:15mi for results containing tweets sent within 15 miles of Harrisburg etc. You can read the full list of advanced Twitter search queries to get an understanding of the advanced search capabilities of Twitter.

On the Appearance tab you can customize the background colors for the widget, tweet, text and links to fit to your website’s look and feel.

On the Dimensions tab you can set the width and height of the widget to accommodate it within your sidebar or wherever you’d prefer to have it.

Once you are satisfied with the customization you can grab the code by clicking on the “Finish & Grab Code” button and can then place it on your website.

Twitter Search Widget is a great way of bringing in some interesting Twitter touch to your website or blog.

Of course, things could be lot improved on the widget and one of my most demanding feature request would be to help us search for multiple keywords. As the widget automatically scrolls with updates from Twitter it would be nice to keep an eye on multiple keywords rather than just one keyword per widget. And that’s just me! Let us know in comments how you find Twitter Search Widget useful and what feature-set that would like to see on the widget.

Technorati Tags:
Twitter, Twitter Search, Twitter Search widget, Widget