twitter.jquery.js

;(function ($) {
  var mention = function(str) {
   return str.replace(/[@]+[A-Za-z0-9-_]+/ig, function(username) {
     return username.link('http://twitter.com/'+username.replace('@',''));
   });
  },
  hashtags = function(str) {
    return str.replace(/[#]+[A-Za-z0-9-_]+/ig, function(tag) {
      tag = tag.replace('#','%23');
      return tag.link('http://search.twitter.com/search?q='+tag);
    });
  }, 
  twit_format = function(str) { 
    return mention(hashtags(str)); 
  },
  loadTweets = function (params) {
      this.each(function () {
        var $this = $(this); // Cache `this`
        $.getJSON('http://search.twitter.com/search.json?callback=?', { 
            rpp: params.limit || 5, 
            q: (params.from?'from:'+params.from + ' ':'') 
               + (params.to?'to:'+params.to + ' ':'') 
               + (params.search || '')
        }, function(tweets) { 
          var tweet_count = 0;
          $.each(tweets.results, function(i, tweet) {
              tweet_count++;
              $this.append($('<li>', {
                      class: 'tweet'
                  })
                  .append($('<a>', { // avatar
                    class: 'twit_avatar',
                    href: 'http://twitter.com/' + tweet.from_user,
                    html: $('<img>', { src: tweet.profile_image_url })
                  }))
                  .append($('<a>', { // @nick
                          href: 'http://twitter.com/' + tweet.from_user,
                          class: 'twit_user'    
                       }).text('@' + tweet.from_user))
                  .append(' : ')
                  .append($('<p>', { // msg
                          class: 'twit_msg'    
                      }).html( twit_format(params.linkify ? linkify(tweet.text) : tweet.text)  )));
          });
          if (!tweet_count) { $this.append($('<li>').text('No Tweets Found')); }
          if (params.callback) { params.callback(); } 
        });
      });
  },
  linkifyUrl = 'http://github.com/cowboy/javascript-linkify/raw/master/ba-linkify.min.js';
  
  $.fn.twitter = function (params) {
    params.linkify ? $.getScript(linkifyUrl, loadTweets.call(this, params)) : loadTweets.call(this, params); // load linkify
    return this;
  };
})(jQuery);