gistfile1.php

$url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.rss';

$twitterdata = get($url);

preg_match_all("/<description>([^<]+)<\/description>/msi",$twitterdata,$descriptions);

$descriptions[1] = preg_replace("/^([\w]+)\:/","<strong>$1</strong>",$descriptions[1]);

foreach($descriptions[1] as $key=>$desc) {

     if($key == 0) {
             continue;
     }

     //assemble REST call and curl the result
     $url = 'http://www.google.com/uds/GlangDetect?callback=' .
            'feedresult&context='. $key  . '&q=' . urlencode($desc) . 
             '&key=notsupplied&v=1.0';

     //get the language
     $language = get($url);

     preg_match("/\"language\":\"([^\"]+)\"/",$language,$resp);

     echo" <!-- ";
     print_r($language); 
     echo' -->';

     //write out the list item
     echo'<li class="'.$resp[1].'">'.$desc.' is <span>'.$resp[1].'</span></li>';


}