It means that it will read status messages from your database and it doesn't query Twitter com for every page load so you won't be rate limited.
You can set how often you want to update the cache...
Upload the folder and its contents into the wp-content plugins directory of your WordPress installation.
Go to your Widgets menu, add ZigTweets` to widget area..
Visit https apps twitter com in tab, sign in with your account, click on Create application and create your own keys if you haven't already..
You will need to visit https apps twitter com, sign in with your account and create your own keys...
Browse the code, check out SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS...
Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 4.7.2.
Demoted admin page from top level to settings section.
Set PHP version to 5.3 with self-deactivation on older versions. 0.1.
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