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In Pictures: The 15 best Android widgets

These useful widgets should be on your Android home screen.

Twitter

Using Twitter, even casually, requires that you be available on the social network during much of the day. You can meet that requirement a little more easily by adding Twitter's widget to your home screen.

I like the simplicity of Twitter's widget: You can choose to show new Tweets from your feed, or Tweets that mention you. You can also write a Tweet directly from the widget, without having to open an app. And that's really all you need.

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