Get Recent Tweets for WordPress

gistfile1.php

function get_tweets($num=3) {
  // Cached
  if($tweets = get_transient('tweets')) {
    return $tweets;
  }

  $url = 'http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?include_entities=true&include_rts=true&screen_name=lhl&count=20&exclude_replies=true';
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  $content = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);

  $tweets = json_decode($content, 1);

  for($i=0; $i<count($tweets); $i++) {
    // If unset or otherwise empty
    if(!$tweets[$i]) {
      continue;
    }

    // Remove @messages
    if($tweets[$i]['text'][0] == '@') {
      unset($tweets[$i]);
    }

    // Link Users
    // regex from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2304632/regex-for-twitter-username
    $tweets[$i]['text'] = preg_replace('/(^|[^@\w])@(\w{1,15})\b/', '$1<a href="https://twitter.com/$2">@$2</a>', $tweets[$i]['text']);

    // Replace URLs
    foreach($tweets[$i]['entities']['urls'] as $url) {
      $tweets[$i]['text'] = str_replace($url['url'], "<a href='{$url['expanded_url']}'>{$url['expanded_url']}</a>", $tweets[$i]['text']);
    }
  }

  // Now lets cut down to $num
  $tw = array();
  foreach($tweets as $tweet) {
    $tw[] = $tweet;
    if(count($tw) >= $num) {
      break;
    }
  }
  $tweets = $tw;

  // Cache for 10 min
  set_transient('tweets', $tweets, 60*10);

  return $tweets;
}

Tried a few simple plugins that either were old/broken, pulled from RSS/didn't support Twitter entities (needed for decoding t.co URLs among other things, or were purely widget oriented. There were plugins some huge plugins like Twitter Tools (requires 3rd party OAuthing, wtf) that I didn't try. Maybe there was something that exists, but after a good few minutes searching realized it'd be easier to write what I needed for myself.