What's the URL you have it installed at that it's not working with Chrome? Works fine in Chrome for me.
As far as a widget block... It just hasn't been a huge priority since we don't use the sidebar on our site, so...

But one of these days... Was thinking about maybe doing something along the lines putting new events into the area at the top of our pages that currently stream new tweets (relevant to the forum someone is in).
For example:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=64 forum shows tweets related to forum software (ignore the "Did You Know..." one.