Getting Twitter followers with JSONP, jQuery and Liquid

twitter.liquid

<div id="items">
            {% assign twitter_id = "metamn" %}
            {% assign twitter_limit = 50 %}
          
            <script type="text/javascript">
              var counter = 0;
              var BreakException= {};
              
              try {
                jQuery.getJSON('http://twitter.com/statuses/followers.json?screen_name={{ twitter_id }}&callback=?',function(data){    
                if (data) {                
                  data.forEach(function(datum) {  
                    if (datum.screen_name) {
                      var str = '<div id="item">';
                      str += '<a href="http://twitter.com/' + datum.screen_name + '" title="' + datum.screen_name + '">';
                      str += '<img class="avatar" src="' + datum.profile_image_url + '" alt="' + datum.screen_name + '" /></a>';
                      str += '</div>';
                      jQuery('#ecosystem #twitter #items').append(str);
                      
                      counter++;
                    }                    
                    if(counter === {{ twitter_limit }}) throw BreakException;               
                  });
                } 
                });​
              } catch(e) {
                  if (e!==BreakException) throw e;
              }           
            </script>          
          </div>