function relative_time(time_value) {
var newtime = time_value.replace(',','');
var values = newtime.split(" ");
time_value = values[2] + " " + values[1] + ", " + values[3] + " " + values[4];
var parsed_date = Date.parse(time_value);
var relative_to = (arguments.length > 1) ? arguments[1] : new Date();
var delta = parseInt((relative_to.getTime() - parsed_date) / 1000);
delta = delta + (relative_to.getTimezoneOffset() * 60);
if (delta < 60) {
return 'less than a minute ago';
} else if(delta < 120) {
return 'about a minute ago';
} else if(delta < (60*60)) {
return (parseInt(delta / 60)).toString() + ' minutes ago';
} else if(delta < (120*60)) {
return 'about an hour ago';
} else if(delta < (24*60*60)) {
return 'about ' + (parseInt(delta / 3600)).toString() + ' hours ago';
} else if(delta < (48*60*60)) {
return '1 day ago';
} else {
return (parseInt(delta / 86400)).toString() + ' days ago';
}
}
//call Twitter script on DOM ready with jQuery
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
var username = 'vellazarb'; //dont forget to insert your Twitter username here
$.get('/proxy.php?url=http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/' + username + '.rss?count=1', function(tweets) { //make sure the path to the proxy.php file is correct
$(tweets).find('item').each(function() {
var tweet = $(this);
var pattern = new RegExp("^"+username+": ","g");
var status = tweet.find('description').text().replace(/((https?|s?ftp|ssh)\:\/\/[^"\s\<\>]*[^.,;'">\:\s\<\>\)\]\!])/g, function(url) {
return '<a href="'+url+'">'+url+'</a>';
}).replace(/\B@([_a-z0-9]+)/ig, function(reply) {
return reply.charAt(0)+'<a href="http://twitter.com/'+reply.substring(1)+'">'+reply.substring(1)+'</a>';
}).replace(pattern,'');
var tweetDate = relative_time(tweet.find('pubDate').text());
$('.loading').fadeOut(750, function() {
$('#twitter_update_list').append($('<p>&ldquo;'+status+'&rdquo; <small> <br/> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/'+username+'"><span>'+tweetDate+'</span></a></small></p>').hide().fadeIn(750));
});
});
});
});