for iMarcist 1

imarcNet1

  private function _twitter($tweet_count, $username) {
    if (empty($username)) {
      return false;
    }
    // $this->_fetch_tweet();
    $tweets = get_transient('recent_tweets_widget');

    if (!$tweets) {
      $this->_fetch_tweets($tweet_count, $username);
    }
    return $tweets;

  }

  private function _fetch_tweets($tweet_count, $username) {
    // print_r($username);
    $tweets = wp_remote_get("https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$username.json", array('sslverify' => false));
    $tweets = json_decode($tweets['body']);

    //  print_r($tweets);

    if (isset($tweets->error)) {
      return false;
    }


    $data              = new stdClass();
    $data->username    = $username;
    $data->tweet_count = $tweet_count;
    $data->tweets      = array();

//    print_r($data);

    foreach ($tweets as $tweet) {
      if ($tweet_count-- == 0) {
        break;
      }
      echo $this->filter_tweet($tweet->text);
      // echo $tweet->description;
    }

    set_transient('recent_tweets_widgets', $data, 60 * 5);
  }