How to get the latest tweet in to a sharepoint Control

In a previous sharepoint project, I got a task to do a contorl to get the latest tweet. We can use the following simple java script to get the latest tweeter. 

Following are the steps: 

Java script:

<script type="text/javascript">

function GetLatestTweet(user)

{

// set your twitter id

       if(user!='')

       {       

                var tweeturl = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=' + user + '&count=1&callback=?';     

                 // using jquery built in get json method with twitter api, return only one resul 

                 $.getJSON(tweeturl, function(data){    

                 // Get the latest Tweet

                 if(data[0]!=null)

{

                                 $("#lblLatestTweetHeader").css('display', 'inline');

                                var tweet = data[0].text;                                         

                                 // Get the created time of the latest Tweet

                                 var tweetCreatedDate=data[0].created_at;                              

                                // format date and get duration

                                var newTweetCreatedDate=parseTwitterDate(tweetCreatedDate);                                                                            

                                // process links and reply        

                               tweet = tweet.replace(/(\b(https?|ftp|file):\/\/[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|])/ig, 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>';   

                                });               

                                var dateTimeOfTweet ='<span class="tw_time">'+newTweetCreatedDate+'</span></div>';

                                tweet='<div class=\"tweetBox\">'+tweet ;                

                                // output the result        

                                $("#tweet").html(tweet+ dateTimeOfTweet);     

                }

         });

     }       

} 

    // format date and get duration

    function parseTwitterDate(tdate) {

        if(tdate!=null){

            var system_date = new Date(Date.parse(tdate));

            var user_date = new Date();   

            if (K.ie) {       

            system_date = Date.parse(tdate.replace(/( \+)/, ' UTC$1'))   

            }

             var tweetdate=tdate;

            var month = tweetdate.substring(4,7);

            var day = tweetdate.substring(8,10);  

             // get Time difference in seconds

            var diff = Math.floor((user_date - system_date) / 1000); 

            if (diff <= 1) {return "now";}   

            if (diff < 60) {return " about "+ diff + " seconds ago";}

            if (diff <= 120) {return " one minute ago";} 

            if (diff <= 3600) {return " about "+ Math.floor(diff / 60) + " minutes ago";}

            if (diff < 7200) {return " about 1 hour ago";}   

            if (diff < 86400) {return " about "+ Math.floor(diff / 3600) + " hours ago";}   

            return " on " +day  + " " + month ;

        }

    }  

    // from http://widgets.twimg.com/j/1/widget.js

    var K = function () {   

    var a = navigator.userAgent;   

    return {       

    ie: a.match(/MSIE\s([^;]*)/)   

    }}();

</script> 

The function  “parseTwitterDate” can be used to get the duration of the tweet  

Following code is used in the controler: 

/// <summary>

/// Markup format used to get latest Tweet.

/// </summary>

private const string ScriptFormat = "GetLatestTweet(\"{0}\");";

protected override void Render(System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter writer)

{

   base.Render(writer);

   SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate

   {

       var markupBuilder = new StringBuilder();

       var tweeterMarkupBuilder = new StringBuilder(); 

       string latestTweetHedding = “Latest Tweet”

       markupBuilder.Append("<span id=\"lblLatestTweetHeader\" style=\"display: none;\">");

       markupBuilder.Append(latestTweetHedding);

       markupBuilder.Append("</span>");

       markupBuilder.Append("<p id=\"tweet\"></p>"); 

       markupBuilder.Append("<!-- ctrl -->");

       markupBuilder.Append("<table class=\"tblSocial\" width=\"90%\" border=\"0\"                                                 cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">");

       string userName = “nirasha”;

       if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(userName))

       {

           tweeterMarkupBuilder.Append("<script language='javascript'>");

           tweeterMarkupBuilder.Append("$(document).ready(function() {");

           tweeterMarkupBuilder.Append(string.Format(ScriptFormat, userName));

           tweeterMarkupBuilder.Append("});");

           tweeterMarkupBuilder.Append("</script>");

       } 

           markupBuilder.Append("</table>");

           markupBuilder.Append("<!-- ctrl -->");

           // Finally emit the content

           writer.Write(tweeterMarkupBuilder.ToString());

           writer.Write(markupBuilder.ToString());

    });

 }