latest tweets by friends

friendstweet.node.js

var http = require('http');
var events = require('events');

function show_status(user) {
var emitter = new events.EventEmitter;

emitter.on('received', function(evtdata){
 var tweet = eval(evtdata); 

 console.log(tweet[0].user.name);
 console.log(tweet[0].text);

});

var staturl = '/statuses/user_timeline/'+user+'.json?count=1';
var opts = {
  host: 'twitter.com',
  port: 80,
  path: staturl,
  method: 'GET'
};

var tweetData = "";

var req = http.request(opts, function(res){
  res.on('data', function(data) {
    tweetData = tweetData + ""+data;
  });
  res.on('end', function(){
    emitter.emit('received', tweetData);
  });
});
req.end();
}

var list = (process.argv.length>2) ? process.argv[2]: "sureshkhatriau";
var friendArray = list.split(",")
for (x in friendArray) {
 show_status(friendArray[x].trim());
}