I'm actually surprised LinkedIn's widget doesn't say "X people viewed your profile in the past Y days" while constantly modifying Y so X can change without actually changing... since that's one of the many shitty attention whore things they do with email alerts.
Am I the only one who doesn't really consider iOS's widgets to be actual widgets? At least on Android I can "do" something with the widget. Example: GMail or email widget....I can read through my inbox; calendar...I can see my next events. The iOS widgets just create a shortcut for me to need to open the full app.
To be fair to Duolingo, if you enable daily goals then your remaining points for the day are shown. Not spectacularly useful perhaps, but not comically useless either.
Excuse me for being rude but what makes these worse than the iOS 7 notifications? If you actually take 2 factor seriously the notification screen is worthless.