So I had my twitter status being displayed over at http://crimm.me and unfortunately the code I was using seems to have flooded Twitter and Twitter decided to deliver a 503 error code to me 
So instead of re-inventing the wheel, I decided to go out and look for one that was already written. I found the most wonderful … I mean WONDERFUL tutorial and I wanted to share it with you guys.
The original is here. The outcome can look like my personal site http://crimm.me.
Basically here’s what you want to do:
Step 1: Download the zip file from the selfconclusion.co.uk site above
Step 2: Open the index.php and edit it, making sure to replace:
with your username
Also pay close attention to this line:
<?php foreach ($feed->get_items(0, 4) as $item): ?>
Change that 4 to a 1,2,3, etc for as many status’ as you want to be displayed.
Step 3: Create a “cache” folder on your website
Step 4: Open the simplepie.inc and look for line 500:
var $cache_location = ‘./cache’;
I HIGHLY suggest that you take the ./cache and change that to an ABSOLUTE path. For example:
var $cache_location = ‘/var/www/htdocs/crimm/cache’;
The reason being is because if you include this script on multiple folders, pages, subdomains, etc … You will have issues with path problems.
Step 5: Upload the 2 files: index.php and simplepie.inc to your server
Step 6: Include and output index.php with the following code:
<?php include (‘php/twitter.php’) ?>
There you go… 6 easy steps and it works out of the box. There seems to be TONS more customization to it, and I’ll leave it to you to play with; as I’m happy with it now
I hope that helps someone out there
