Thanks for your replies. I ended up ditching the widget and just using the API. The end result wasn’t as pretty, because we had to develop something on-the-fly, but at least it showed real-time results. I agree that the lack of real-time results makes the widgets absolutely useless for any type of real-world application (for example, we were using this to post news about local election results yesterday–so hours-old news was of very little use to us at the time!)