Holy …!… Amazing.
Andrew, “while you’re at it”… :) Here is a couple of suggestions. Now, I don’t want to be THAT guy (who gets his request resolved, so he begins spamming the creator with tons of new ones :) ), it’s just that I have tested about ten different Twitter widgets for WordPress and I think I now which extra options can be very useful for users. I think it’s very simple stuff, but do feel free to ignore it if you don’t think it’s worth pursuing!
1. Options to not include retweets (so tweets beginning with “RT” afaiu) and replies (tweets beginning with @). The reason is that retweets often are not directly connected to the company/blogger, it’s just something we forwarded to others. Replies, on the other hand, are simply not fun to read because visitors to the blog/site don’t know the context and the conversation (that why’s actually you cannot see replies from someone you follow on Twitter unless you follow that other person involved in the conversation too).
Also, BTW, retweets of long tweets right now seem truncated: they appear okay in Twitter, but not in the widget. For example, when I read Twitter in the browser, I can see that I have retweeted this “properly”:
@Capy_Nathan: Can’t believe how much folks focus on duration. Short downloadable games should be applauded for their focus, not called out for ‘lacking’.
…but Fuji’s twitter widget displays only:
RT @Capy_Nathan: Can’t believe how much folks focus on duration. Short downloadable games should be applauded for their focus, not calle … 1 day ago
2. Option (or have it by default) to color hashtags (same color as the tweet’s date, for example, so it’s all in harmony).
3. Option to insert a character before the tweet date, so it doesn’t gel together with the rest of the tweet, e.g. now we have “http://t.co/qN33vKNn 3 hours ago” while it could be “http://t.co/qN33vKNn | 3 hours ago” or “http://t.co/qN33vKNn • 3 hours ago”. Or actually ANY solution that visually separates the date from the tweet (possibly including the option to not display the date at all).
4. Option (or by default) to “decipher” t.co links. Tweets look like this in the widget:
Two great adventures in the Fall Bundle: To the Moon, and Blackwell Deception. Get it if you like good stories. http://t.co/qN33vKNn 3 hours ago
…while it looks like this when you read Twitter in the browser/native app:
Two great adventures in the Fall Bundle: To the Moon, and Blackwell Deception. Get it if you like good stories. http://www.indieroyale.com
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To be clear, only the first suggestion is something I truly care about (especially the @ mentions part) and would finally allow me to drop the external widget and use Fuji’s native one. The rest is just low priority suggestions (if suggestions can have priority :) )