A little Script that gets the latest Tweets and chaches it via Transient-API

Wordpress: Get Latest Tweet by Username

/**
* Get the latest Tweet Text by Username
*
* @uses Transient - API for chaching
* @copyright Mathias Schopmans - 10/2010
* 
* @param string $username: Twitter Username
*/

function get_last_tweet($username='nasenmann'){	
	if (false === ($last_tweet = get_transient('last_tweet_by_'.$username))) {
		
		$res = wp_remote_get('http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/'.$username.'.json');
		$tweets = json_decode($res['body']);

		foreach ($tweets as $tweet){
			if(empty($tweet->in_reply_to_user_id)){
				$last_tweet = $tweet->text;
				break;
			}
		}
		
		set_transient('last_tweet_by_'.$username, $last_tweet, 10*60); 

	}
	return $last_tweet;
}

print_r(get_last_tweet());