gistfile1.js

var http = require('http'),
    util = require('util');
var options = {
        host: 'api.twitter.com',
        port: 80,
        path: '/1/statuses/public_timeline.json'
};

var chunks = [],
    total = 0;

http.get(options, function(res) {
        console.log('Got response ' + res.statusCode);
}).on('data', function(chunk) {
    chunks.push(chunk);
    total+= chunk.length;
}).on('error', function(e) {
        console.log('Got Error ' + e.message);
}).on('end', function() {
    var buf = new Buffer(total)
        cur = 0;
    for (var i = 0, l = chunks.length; i < l; i++) {
        chunks[i].copy(buf, cur, 0);
        cur += chunks[i].length;
    }
    console.log(util.inspect(buf.toString(), true, 5));
});

Some links to refer to:

• http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.4/api/buffers.html#buffer.copy
• http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.4/api/util.html#util.inspect