A script to pull the latest tweets from a given Twitter user, parse it for links, usernames and hashtags, then turn the date/time into a link to the tweet.

latestTweets.js

jQuery(document).ready(function(){
	twitter();
});

/*
 * twitter()
 *
 * only parameter is an object of options:
 *
 * profile		(string) The profile to pull tweets from
 * element		(string) The ID of the HTML element to contain output
 * tweets		(integer) The total number of tweets you wish to display
 * retweets		(boolean) Whether or not you want retweets in the output
 * limit		(integer) Used automatically when retweets not allowed, contains original value of tweets variable
 * actions		(object (or false for no actions)) An array of actions to display and a string to separate them with
 *   separator		(string) Separating character(s)
 *   actions		(array) The actions to perform out of: profile, reply, retweet, favorite
**/
function twitter(opts){
	profile = ((typeof opts !== 'undefined' && typeof opts.profile !== 'undefined') ? opts.profile : "twitter");
	element = ((typeof opts !== 'undefined' && typeof opts.element !== 'undefined') ? opts.element : "twitter");
	tweets = ((typeof opts !== 'undefined' && typeof opts.tweets !== 'undefined') ? opts.tweets : 2);
	retweets = ((typeof opts !== 'undefined' && typeof opts.retweets !== 'undefined' && opts.retweets == false) ? "0" : "true");
	limit = ((typeof opts !== 'undefined' && typeof opts.limit !== 'undefined') ? opts.limit : tweets);
	if(typeof opts !== 'undefined' && typeof opts.actions == 'object'){
		actions = opts.actions;
		actions.separator = ((typeof actions.separator == 'undefined') ? " | " : ((typeof actions.separator == 'string') ? actions.separator : " | "));
		actions.actions = ((Object.prototype.toString.call( actions.actions ) === '[object Array]') ? actions.actions : ['reply', 'retweet', 'favorite']);
		actions = ((actions.actions.length > 0) ? actions : false);
	} else {
		actions = {
			separator: " | ",
			actions: ['profile', 'reply', 'retweet', 'favorite']
		};
	}
	if(actions){
		action_rules = {
			profile: ['user', 'screen_name'],
			reply: ['tweet', 'in_reply_to'],
			retweet: ['retweet', 'tweet_id'],
			favorite: ['favorite', 'tweet_id'],
			favourite: ['favorite', 'tweet_id']
		};
	}
	_actions_backup = actions;

	elem = jQuery("#"+element);
	if(elem){
		jQuery.getJSON("https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/"+profile+".json?count="+tweets+"&include_rts="+retweets+"&callback=?", function(data) {
			if(data.length == limit){
				months = ['Januray', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December'];
				String.prototype.parseURL = function() {
					return this.replace(/[A-Za-z]+:\/\/[A-Za-z0-9\-_]+\.[A-Za-z0-9\-_:%&~\?\/.=]+/g, function(url) {
						return url.link(url);
					});
				};
				String.prototype.parseUsername = function() {
					return this.replace(/[@]+[A-Za-z0-9\-_]+/g, function(u) {
						var username = u.replace("@","");
						return u.link("http://twitter.com/"+username);
					});
				};
				String.prototype.parseHashtag = function() {
					return this.replace(/[#]+[A-Za-z0-9\-_]+/g, function(t) {
						var tag = t.replace("#","%23");
						return t.link("http://search.twitter.com/search?q="+tag);
					});
				};

				if(actions && actions.actions.indexOf('profile') >= 0){
					elem.append("<div id='action_profile'><a target='_blank' href='https://twitter.com/intent/"+action_rules.profile[0]+"?"+action_rules.profile[1]+"="+profile+"'>"+profile+"</a></div>");
					actions.actions.splice(actions.actions.indexOf('profile'), 1);
				}

				for(var i = 0; i < data.length; i++){
					elem.append('<div id="icon" class="tweet_'+i+'"></div>');
					var tweet = data[i].text.parseURL().parseUsername().parseHashtag();
					elem.append("<div id='tweet_"+data[i].id_str+"' class='tweet_"+i+"'>"+tweet+"</div>");

					var tdate = new Date(data[i].created_at);
					var sdate = months[tdate.getMonth()] + " " + tdate.getDate() + ", " + tdate.getFullYear() + " - " + tdate.getHours() + ":" + tdate.getMinutes();
					var tweet_link = "http://twitter.com/"+profile+"/status/"+data[i].id_str;
					elem.append("<div id='datetime_"+data[i].id_str+"' class='tweet_"+i+"'><a href='"+tweet_link+"'>"+sdate+"</a></div>");
					if(actions){
						elem.append("<div id='actions_"+data[i].id_str+"' class='tweet_"+i+"'>");
						for(var j = 0, l = actions.actions.length; j < l; j++){
							if(j > 0 && j < l){
								elem.append(actions.separator);
							}
							_act = actions.actions[j];
							_link = "<a target='_blank' href='https://twitter.com/intent/"+action_rules[_act][0]+"?"+action_rules[_act][1]+"="+data[i].id_str+"'>"+_act+"</a>";
							elem.append("<span id='"+_act+"_"+data[i].id_str+"'>"+_link+"</span>");
						}
						elem.append('</div>');
					}
				}
			} else {
				twitter({profile: profile, element: element, tweets: (tweets+1), retweets: retweets, limit: limit, actions: _actions_backup});
			}
		});
	}
}

tweets.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset=utf-8 />
<title>Last Tweet</title>
</head>
<body>
	<div id="twitter"></div>
	<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
	<script src="latestTweets.js"></script>
</body>
</html>