A dead simple wordpress plugin to get your tweets on a wordpress site.

awesome_twitter.php

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Awesome Twitter Plugin
Plugin URI: 
Description: Adds a function to grab your latest tweets and caches them in the database.
Author: Patrick Arlt
Version: 0.01
Author URI: http://patrickarlt.com
*/

/*
Useage

<?php tweetStream('patrickarlt', 3); ?>

*/

//http://saturnboy.com/2010/02/parsing-twitter-with-regexp/
function parse_tweet($t) {
	
	// link URLs
	$t = preg_replace('@(https?://([-\w\.]+)+(/([\w/_\.]*(\?\S+)?(#\S+)?)?)?)@', '<a href="$1">$1</a>', $t);
	
	//link twitter users
 	$t = preg_replace('/@(\w+)/', '<a href="http://twitter.com/$1">@$1</a>',$t);
	
	//link twitter arguments
 	$t = preg_replace('/\s+#(\w+)/',' <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23$1">#$1</a>', $t);

	return trim($t);

}

function tweetStream($username, $limit){

  if (false === ($raw_tweets = get_transient('awesome_twitter'))){
      
    $raw_tweets = wp_remote_fopen('http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/'.$username.'.json?include_rts=1');
     
    set_transient('awesome_twitter', $raw_tweets, 1);
  
  }
  
  $tweets = json_decode($raw_tweets);

  echo('<ul>');
  
    for($i = 0; $i <= ($limit - 1); $i++){
      
      echo("<li>".parse_tweet($tweets[$i]->text)."<time datetime='".$tweets[$i]->created_at."'> ".human_time_diff(strtotime($tweets[$i]->created_at))." ago</time></li>");
    
    }

  echo('</ul>');
}
?>