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Asked: 2026-05-13T11:24:42+00:00

I have a website with a database of users and I would like to

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I have a website with a database of users and I would like to allow them to display on their profile page their current tweet message (if they have a Twitter account).

After searching, I had seen this tool: http://juitter.com
It seems to be a little bit complex for just my needs.

I am working with Rails. Do you know a tool as simple as possible which can do that?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You may look at the twitter api: users/show

    Example:

    $ curl http://twitter.com/users/show/20536157.json
{"notifications":false,"time_zone":"Pacific Time (US &
Canada)","friends_count":214,
"profile_sidebar_border_color":"bbccff","url":"http://www.google.com/support/",
"description":"News and updates from Google","status":{"created_at":"Mon Jan
11 19:38:40 +0000
2010","source":"web","truncated":false,"favorited":false,
"in_reply_to_user_id":null,
"in_reply_to_status_id":null,"in_reply_to_screen_name":null,"id":7640306427,

"text":"If
you're interested in what's happening with @google in Sub-Saharan Africa,
check out the new @googleafrica for news &
info."},

"geo_enabled":false,"favourites_count":73, "created_at":"Tue Feb 10
19:14:39 +0000 2009","profile_text_color":"000000","verified":false,
...
}

    You can get the last tweet with a simple jquery call:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
    <script>google.load("jquery", "1");</script>
    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
        $(document).ready(function(){
            $.getJSON("http://twitter.com/users/show/20536157.json",
                function(data){ $("#tweet").text(data.status.text); });
        });
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="tweet"><!-- last status will show up here --></div>
</body>
</html>
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