Javascript Twitter Statuses

twitter.js

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Author:		Jay Contonio - http://jcontonio.com/
Last change:	2009-03-13
Requires:	jQuery
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// The username for the twitter feed
var user = "TWITTER_USERNAME";
// All our twitter data gets loaded into this array
var twitterData = new Array();
// This is the current piece of data we're looking at
var currentTwit = 0;
// This is the maximum number of tweets to load
var maxTwit = 1;

function loadTwitterData() 
{
	var url = "http://twitter.com/status/user_timeline/" + user + ".json?limit=" + maxTwit + "&callback=?"; 
	$.getJSON(url,
	function(data){
	    $.each(data, function(i, item) {
			insertIntoArray(item.text.linkify());
			if(i == maxTwit) {
				return false;
			}
		})
	});
}

function insertIntoArray(data) 
{
	twitterData.push(data);
	if(twitterData.length == maxTwit) { 
		showData(currentTwit);
	}
}

function showData(item) 
{
	$("#twitter > p").html(twitterData[item]);
}

String.prototype.linkify = function() 
{
	return this.replace(/[A-Za-z]+:\/\/[A-Za-z0-9-_]+\.[A-Za-z0-9-_:%&\?\/.=]+/, function(m) {
		return m.link(m);
	});
};