Loop over some tweets, in PHP

php-twitter-loop.php

<?php
$twitter_user = "shamess";

$json = file_get_contents ("http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=".$twitter_user."&count=3&trim_user=true");
$tweets = json_decode ($json);

echo "<ul>";

foreach ($tweets as $tweet) {
    $tweet_text = $tweet->text;
    // change all the urls to links
    $tweet_text = preg_replace ("!http://(\\S+)!i", "<a href=\"http://$1\">http://$1</a>", $tweet_text);
    // @usernames
    $tweet_text = preg_replace ("/@(\\w+)/", "<a href=\"http://twitter.com/$1\">@$1</a>", $tweet_text);
    // #hashtags too
    $tweet_text = preg_replace ("/#(\\w+)/", "<a href=\"http://twitter.com/search?q=$1\">#$1</a>", $tweet_text);

    echo "<li>".$tweet_text." - <em><a href=\"http://twitter.com/shamess/status/".$tweet->id_str."\">".date ('l \a\t H:i', strtotime ($tweet->created_at))."</a></em></li>";
}
echo "</ul>";