Most of bloggers nowadays use Twitter as their social network. If you’re running a blog, you must share your tweets with your blog readers too.
You can simply show your latest tweets on your blog using some plugins or manually. I suggest you to do it manually as it’s not that difficult as you thought.
You’ll require to add only 3 lines of code to your theme to display the Tweets.
1) There are 2 bits of javascript that you’ll need to place anywhere on the page. I’ll suggest to put the below code at the bottom of page, before </body> tag in footer.php
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/Username.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=1"></script>
Remember to replace the word “Username” with your twitter username. Also change count=1 with the number of tweets you want to display.
2) To display the Tweets, just add the below code in sidebar.php or create a widget for it. Use PHP Code widget plugin to insert the HTML code to your widgets.
<div id="twitter_div"><ul id="twitter_update_list"><li> </li></ul></div>
That’s it. Now your visitors will see your latest tweets. This will help in increasing your twitter followers too. Your tweets will look like as shown in below image:
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interesting, and we should avoid installing plugins for all these small tasks, rather we should use direct method.
I don’t understand the HTML. If I copy that verbatim, I get nothing. Doesn’t there need to be something more between the tags than just  ?
If I call up this in a browser, I get nothing but a bullet point:
The filter took away my tags that added beneath my comment, but I basically copied and pasted what you said below my comment. Thank you!
Make sure you’ve placed the Javascript first in footer.php or header.php.  ? represents non-breaking space.
I’ve tried it long ago and it worked fine (can be seen in the screenshot above).