About features of Twitter Gadget with Google Gmail

Twitter Gadget is a new tool that essentially allows you to have all of the main features of Twitter gadget inside of Gmail as a Google Gadget. It lets you view your public timeline – which auto-refreshes up to every 3 minutes – view replies and direct messages, and post updates.

To access it, you’ll first need to enable custom gadgets in Gmail, which can be done from the Labs page under Settings. From there, you just insert the URL via the news "Gadgets" link you'll have under Settings - http://www.twittergadget.com/gadget_gmail.xml - at which point you’ll be prompted for your Twitter login.
Fittingly, users are debating the usefulness of this on Twitter, with some arguing it’s far too small to be functional, while others think it makes Gmail even more of a sticky one-place-for-everything application.
Personally, I think it fits somewhere in between downloadable clients with lots of nifty natures and the Web interface, which requires an extra tab in your browser. It’s useful, but probably not an all-out replacement for accessing Twitter in one of the existing ways.