Read a Twitter feed with Linq to XML

linqtoxml.cs

public class TwitterSearch
    {
        private const string urlTemplate = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q={0}";
        private static XNamespace atomNS = "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";

        public static List<Tweet> Query(string query)
        {
            XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Load(string.Format(urlTemplate, query));

            var tweets = 
            (from tweet in xDoc.Descendants(atomNS + "entry")
              select new Tweet
              {
                  Title = (string)tweet.Element(atomNS + "title"),
                  Published = 
                    DateTime.Parse((string)tweet.Element(atomNS + "published")),
                  Id = (string)tweet.Element(atomNS + "id"),
                  Link = tweet.Elements(atomNS + "link")
                      .Where(link => (string)link.Attribute("rel") == "alternate")
                      .Select(link => (string)link.Attribute("href"))
                      .First(),
                  Author = (from author in tweet.Descendants(atomNS + "author")
                            select new Author
                            {
                                Name = (string)author.Element(atomNS + "name"),
                                Uri = (string)author.Element(atomNS + "uri"),
                            }).First(),
              });

            return tweets.ToList<Tweet>();
        }

        public class Tweet
        {
            public string Id { get; set; }
            public DateTime Published { get; set; }
            public string Link { get; set; }
            public string Title { get; set; }
            public Author Author { get; set; }
        }
        public class Author
        {
            public string Name { get; set; }
            public string Uri { get; set; }
        }
    }