Embed latest tweets from twitter onto a website

Question

I want to take the latest 5 tweets from a twitter and have it auto-update on a website. I read up on this a bit, and it looks like the only way to do it is to have a word press site. Any ideas? Thanks and let me know if you need more information.

Answer 1

[This doesn't require WordPress at all. Where'd you hear that?]

Twitter themselves provide a widget for doing this. It's somewhat limited in customization options. If you need more control over things like the appearance, there are bunches of jQuery plugins, like Tweet, that'll give you just the data, which you can pump into custom markup/styling.