Let me try to explain what we want the plugin to do.

The principle is the same as a Twitter widget. You go to twitter.com (or use another utility) to update your Twitter status. You place a widget on your Wordpress site that will pull in your Twitter updates. It will display the last 4 updates, or whatever you want it to display (there are many Twitter widgets that do this). The widget pulls in the updates for your Twitter account by requiring you to provide the user name and password for that Twitter account (in other words, you can't just pull in animals from any Twitter account you want