The menu bar ticking a demo message I sent myself: (The width it uses for "ticking" is adjustable)

The menu with all your accounts: (Take a closer look at the message at the top: Accents, Umlauts, Russian and Japanese are being decoded. -- I do speak Russian, but only very little Japanese; I have no idea what the Japanese means, it was just random text copied from www.apple.ru and www.apple.co.jp, respectively)