Is there a need to do apply_filter(‘widget_title’, $instance[‘title’]) or any other ‘widget_xxx’ filters?

For example, it makes them editable using the Front-end Editor plugin.

All the cool widgets are doing it:

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-includes/default-widgets.php

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