13 Best and Fresh Facebook and Twitter Inspired jQuery Plugins

jQuery is basically a cross browser Java script library. It is designed for a very useful purpose. It simplifies greatly the client side scripting of HTML. It if absolutely free, open source and also dual licensed. It is also the most common java script library used these days. It is fast and concise and extremely helps in simplifying the HTML document. It also helps in event handling and animations and even Ajax interactions.

A very integral and important part of web development is jQuery plugins. These are extremely essential because they give the web developers a very wide range of opportunities and activities to develop a wide range of variation of effects for their websites. They can do the same whatever way they like. Apart from that these jQuery plugins also help them insert in their website amazing effects.

It is therefore very helpful in the social networking websites particularly Facebook and Twitter. You can add a lot of varied features which are also very attractive and appealing using these plugins and this process gets a lot simpler with the help of these jQuery plugins.

Today we have listed some best Facebook and twitter inspired jQuery plugins for designers and developers. Visit this list and select the best Facebook and twitter inspired plugins for their next project. I hope you would love to use these jQuery plugins for your web designs. Also share your thought in our comment section below.

1) Facebook Like Face Detect

Whenever we upload photos to Facebook, Facebook automatically recognizes the faces in the photo and allow you to tag them.
If you ever wondered how to detect faces in photos in your own website, then the answer is very simple, Faces in photos  can be easily detected using a jQuery plugin.

2) Facebook Alertpopup Box

Facebook like popup/alert box is primary choice of all web developers to show messages to their users. Although it seems a difficult task but a little CSS and Jquery can ease your life a lot.

3) MyFacebook Style Sidebar

This plugin create a facebook style sidebar. The sidebar is on the left, and content display div is on the right. User can click on a link on the sidebar, and the content will be displayed on the right. There are different types of link that this plugin can support. You can load the content using ajax or iframe. Like the facebook sidebar, when the page is loading, a loading icon will be displayed next to the link.

4) Facebook Like Notifications Live

Whenever you are online on Facebook and if there are any notifications then you would have noticed the small blue box on the left bottom alerting you the notification live, this is what Facebook calls as the beeper.

5) jQuery Facebook Tab

6) Facebook Wall

The name says it all, this jQuery plugin allows you to display the Facebook Wall of an user, a page or an app on your own website.

7) Making our own Twitter Timeline

8) Twitter List Ajax Fanpage

Also, at the same time, they expanded their API to include list management functionality. This allows us to use these new tools to create a widget that flips lists the other way around – a fan page you can put in your sidebar, that allows your visitors to fill in their twitter name and join a specially crafted fan list in your twitter account

9) jQuery Twitter Ticker

In this tutorial introducing to create a pure jQuery & CSS twitter ticker which utilizes Twitter’s Search API. It will show your or your friends’ latest tweets, and will not require any server side code  or databases.

10) Twit

Twit is a jQuery Plugin to Display Twitter Tweets on a Blog.

11) Tweetquote

A simple JavaScript plugin, that pulls the latest Twitter Tweets, based on your search terms, and shows them on your website.

12) jQuery  Livetwitter

You can use it to show a stream of tweets based on search queries, tweets from a specific user or a list. You can also filter the tweets by geographic location, language etc.

13) Juitter