https://github.com/phstc/jquery-twitter example

jquery.twitter-example.js

/*
@pablocantero
http://pablocantero.com
https://github.com/phstc/jquery-twitter/
*/
	
(function(){
	/*
		Customized callback to show an error message on the tweets's lookup 
		This callback is optional, the default error callback shows an alert(errorMessage)
	*/
	var tweetsErrorCallback = function(errorMessage, tweet){
		var msg = 'Oops! <a href="http://dev.twitter.com/pages/rate-limiting">Twitter Rate Limit Exceeded</a>';
		msg += 'Try again later or search <a href="http://twitter.com/search?q=' + tweet.toQuery() + '">directly on Twitter</a>';
		$('#tweets').html(msg);
	}
	/*
		Customized callback to show the tweets 
		Remember that, this plugin is only for tweets's search, it does not generate view
	*/
	var tweetsSuccessCallback = function(data){
		var tweetsLi = '';
		for(var i = 0; i < data.results.length; i++){
			var tweet = data.results[i];
			// Calculate how many hours ago was the tweet posted
			// http://www.lupomontero.com/fetching-tweets-with-jquery-and-the-twitter-json-api/
	        var dateTweet = new Date(tweet.created_at);
	        var dateNow   = new Date();
	        var dateDiff  = dateNow - dateTweet;
	        var hours      = Math.round(dateDiff/(1000*60*60));
			tweetsLi += '<li>';
			tweetsLi += '	<dl>';
			tweetsLi += '		<dt><img src="' + tweet.profile_image_url + '" /></dt>';
			tweetsLi += '		<dd>';
			tweetsLi += '			<span><a href="http://twitter.com/' + tweet.from_user + '">' + tweet.from_user + '</a></span>';
			tweetsLi += '			<span>' + hours + ' hours ago</span></dd></dl>';
			tweetsLi += '	<div>' + tweet.text + '</div>';
			tweetsLi += '</li>';
		}
		$('#tweets').html('<ul>' + tweetsLi + '</ul>'); 
		$('#tweets').autolink({addBr:true});
	}

	$(document).ready(function(){
	    /*
			Here is the example of the plugin usage
		*/
		var tweets = Twitter.tweets();
		tweets.containing('jquery.twitter').all(tweetsSuccessCallback, tweetsErrorCallback);
	});
})();