Animated Twitter Widget

Here's my little contribution to the quite popular Twitter Widget playoff. Devoted my main attention to two fairly small details:

Since displaying notifications is only necessary when there are actually such available, I decided to make their appearance dynamic by using that page curl in the top right-hand corner. The small digit behind it indicates the number of unread notifications; if there are none, the paper will simply uncurl.

Also, I tried giving that somewhat skeuomorphistic "stack of paper" metaphor a touch of interactiveness, so when hovering the widget, the sheet underneath actually slides downwards and reveals a compose field.

Be sure to check out the non-dithered PNG version and feel free to grab the PSD!

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