tweet_innerfade.js

<script type="text/javascript" src="./jquery.innerfade.js"></script>
(function($){

    $.fn.jqTweet = function(options) {
        options = $.extend( {}, $.fn.jqTweet.options, options );
        return this.eatch(function() {
            var elem = $(this)
            , o = options
            , api_uri = 'http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name='
            , json_uri = api_uri + o.username + '&count=' + o.count + '&callback=?'
            , jtweet = '<ul id="tweet-list">';

            elem.append('<p id="jqtw_loader" style="display:none;">' + o.loader_text + '</p>');	
            $("#jqtw_loader").fadeIn('slow');
			$.getJSON(json_uri,
                function(data) {
                    for(var i in data) {
                        var tweet = formatTweet(data[i].text)
                        , username = data[i].user.screen_name
                        , icon = data[i].user.profile_image_url
                        , time = relative_time(data[i].created_at);
                        jtweet += '<li><div class="tweet"><img src="';
                        jtweet += icon + '" /><p><span class="tweet-text">';
                        jtweet += tweet + '</span><br/><a href="http://twitter.com/';
                        jtweet += username + '/status/' + data[i].id + '">';
                        jtweet += time + '</a></p></div></li>';
                    }
                    jteet += '</ul>';
                    elem.empty().html(list);
                    $("#jqtw_loader").fadeOut('fast');   
                    $('#tweet-list').innerfade({
                                 speed: 2000,
                                 timeout: 10000,
                                 wait: 3000,
                    });
            });
        });

		function formatTweet(str) {
			var str = ' '+ str;
			str = str.replace(/(https?:\/\/[-_.!~*\'()a-zA-Z0-9;\/?:\@&=+\$,%#]+)/,
					function(u) {
						var shortUrl = (u.length > 30) ? u.substr(0, 30) + '...': u;
						return '<a href="' + u + '">' + shortUrl + '</a>';
					})
				.replace(/@([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/g,'@<a href="http://twitter.com/$1">$1</a>')
				.replace(/(?:^|\s)#([^\s\.\+:!]+)/g,
					function (a, u) {
                                    		return ' <a href="http://twitter.com/search?q=' + encodeURIComponent(u) + '">#' + u + '</a>';
				});
			return str;
		}

		function relative_time(dateString) {
			var rightNow = new Date();
			var then = new Date(dateString);
			var browser = function() {
      				var ua = navigator.userAgent;
      				return {ie: ua.match(/MSIE\s([^;]*)/)};
				};
			if (browser.ie) {
				then = Date.parse(dateString.replace(/( \+)/, ' UTC$1'));
			}
      
			var diff = rightNow - then;
			var second = 1000,
			minute = second * 60,
			hour = minute * 60,
			day = hour * 24,
			week = day * 7;
			if (isNaN(diff) || diff < 0) {
				return ""; // return blank string if unknown
			}
			if (diff < second * 7) {
				return "right now";
			}
			if (diff < minute) {
				return Math.floor(diff / second) + " seconds ago";
			}
			if (diff < minute * 2) {
				return "about 1 minute ago";
			}
			if (diff < hour) {
				return Math.floor(diff / minute) + " minutes ago";
			}
			if (diff < hour * 2) {
				return "about 1 hour ago";
			}
			if (diff < day) {
				return  Math.floor(diff / hour) + " hours ago";
			}
			if (diff > day && diff < day * 2) {
				return "yesterday";
			}
			if (diff < day * 365) {
				return Math.floor(diff / day) + " days ago";
			}
			else {
				return "over a year ago";
			}
		}
    }

    $.fn.jqTweet.options = {
	    username : 'cool_ni_ikou',
        count : 5,
        loader_text: 'loading new tweets'
    };
	
})(jQuery);