Grab last 200 tweets

grab_tweets.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'json'
require 'net/http'
require 'cgi'

twitter_user = 'agencyrepublic'

url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/#{twitter_user}.json?count=200&include_rts=1"
resp = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url))
results = JSON.parse(resp.body)

results.each do |result|
  puts CGI.unescapeHTML(result['text'].chomp('"').reverse.chomp('"').reverse) + "\n"
end