Given that recently Twitter has been going up and down like a yo-yo (and I'm sure they're working on it), I've upgraded the twitter script to support timeouts. Twitter have also messed with the API...

I've been following the requests on the current Twitter JS plugin and decided to implement a few. In particular there's now support for templates, which gives you full control of how the tweet is displayed.

The twitter plugin has just been upgraded to (optionally) search for links in the twitter text and activate them as link. So I thought I'd share the linkify code.

Update - updated 31-May 2008 Updated to specify timeouts, and timeout functions - see options below. Also Twitter have changed their API so 'withFriends' now requires authentication. With friends will be disabled regardless until I find out what the new plan is. Download latest Twitter.js Following on from how [...]

Update: for the latest version of this script, and complete control over how it looks, see Add Twitter to your blog (step-by-step)   Add tweets to your pages that won't break when Twitter goes down!   You might be inclined to add your 'Twitters' to your blog via JavaScript - the only problem is when Twitter's traffic goes up, [...]