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There are a number of ways to promote your Twitter account. You can add yourself to one of the many growing Twitter directories, advertise your brand, or, as I’ll discuss in this post, feature a badge with your Twitter information on your website, blog, or even in your email.

Here are 20 embeddable badges and widgets that you can customize to include your tweets and, in some cases, those of your friends. Have another badge or widget to add to the list? Tell us about it in the comments.

Twitter badges

Chris’ Twitter Badge - A simple HTML badge that comes in the form of raw code you just copy-and-paste while changing a few links.  It will show your last four tweets and keeps the basic Twitter branding and logo from the site.

SayTweet - SayTweet allows you to upload a picture of your own, tag the Twitter users shown, and their tweets will show up in speech bubbles on the image as they publish them.

Sigpad - Sigpad asks you to enter your Twitter username and it then creates a bookmarklet you can add to your browser toolbars.  Once you’ve done this you can compose emails in AOL, Gmail, Outlook, Windows Live or Yahoo Mail, drag the bookmarklet into the body, and your latest Twitter update will be shown in the email when you send it.

TwitStamp - TwitStamp lets you set up an easy, attractive, and customizable badge that displays your latest tweet. You can select the badge’s size, background and so on.  You can also set up a TwitCard that will show your name, avatar, bio, latest tweet, number of followers and more.

Twitter Statuses Badge - A Twitter badge that will show the last few tweets from your account, along with how long ago you posted them and the permalink to them so that people can go to them directly.  Can be customized via CSS to better match your blog or site.

Twitterati Badge - A very simple JavaScript solution for your badge needs that will let you set height, width, colors, border and so on.  Displays your tweets as well as those of your followers.

TwitterCard - One of the biggest complaints people have about badges for any service is that they don’t fit in with their overall blog design.  TwitterCard tackles this complaint head-on by giving you a JavaScript powered badge to show all your Twitter info in the 125X125 format.  This will fit in perfectly with your ad units, or just about anywhere on your site without looking the least bit out of place with current design standards.  Also has the ability to be implemented via HTML or a WordPress plugin. (please note that the JavaScript was not working when we tested it, but the other methods were).

TwitterMySite - Enter your user name, any extra text you may want and in what color, and simply click “Generate my Button.”  You’ll be offered up a selection of different badges, all set with the variables you entered, ready for you to paste into your site.

U Stand Out Twitter Badges - U Stand Out offers up a nice selection of badges you can use for your site or blog that range from artsy to straight-to-the-point.

Vincent Abry Twitter Badges - A collection of Twitter badges for just about every taste in various sizes for all the different blog configurations out there.

WishAFriend.com Twitter Widgets - These Twitter widgets are all flash-based and offer you different themes such as holidays, fun, USA and so on and will display a scrollable selection of your most recent Tweets.  Just enter your username and then get the embed code to get started.

Twitter widgets

Bastawhiz’s Twitter Widget - A customizable widget that lets you set the height, width and the number of tweets to display.  Each tweet is hyperlinked to the permalink on the Twitter site for easy access.

Blogger Buster Twitter Widget - A Twitter widget built specifically for blogs on Blogger.com.  Just enter a title for it, your username and the number of tweets to display and you’re done.

Language Is A Virus - Language Is A Virus offers hundreds of different Twitter widgets that you first choose by the size small, medium or large, and once you’ve selected that, you can sort them by color.  Find the one you want and you have it as a badge or a widget, but if you go the widget route it will also display your last 5 tweets.

Official Twitter Widgets - Twitter offers a mixture of Flash and HTML widgets depending on the platform you wish to put them on.  Officially supported sites are Blogger, Facebook (via an application), MySpace, and TypePad. Twitter also offers generic widgets for other sites.

Sprout - Ever wanted to build your own widget from the ground up?  Well, Sprout will let you build them for several services, but Twitter is probably the most popular.  If you’re worried about not knowing anything about programming, Sprout handles that for you by giving you the ability to just drag-and-drop the elements you want, but arranging them easily in the way you want.

TwiBadge - TwiBadge is a WordPress plugin widget that allows you to easily add the official Twitter widget to your site.  This allows you to show a group of your most recent tweets, your user name and number of followers, but best of all, it will also enable your readers to login and follow you so they can do everything right from your sidebar.

Twitter Widget - WidgetNest offers up a nice little Twitter widget that keeps the theme of the main site.  It displays your name and avatar, and your last several tweets scroll one at a time at a speed of your choice. Coding is available as JavaScript and Flash.

TwitterSalt - TwitterSalt allows you to customize your widget on their site and then just by using a single line of HTML code you can post your updates on sites, on message boards, in emails and more.

WordPress.com Twitter Widget - WordPress.com hosted blogs can’t upload their own plugins, but they’ve been nice enough to add a built-in widget for you to add your tweets to your blog.  Just enter a title, your Twitter name and the number of tweets to display, and then you can just add it to your sidebar.

More Twitter resources from Mashable:

- The Twitter Followholic: An Epidemic

- 6 Unique Twitter Visualizations

- 6 Twitter Games to Make Tweeting Fun

- HOW TO: Create Groups for Twitter

- Sixteen Great Twitter Moments

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