Question

I want to know is there a way to do something like this to get a user’s most recent tweet? So, the user would put in their twitter name and this could get their most recent post.

Answer 1

Try using this (PHP):

$username="user"; // set user name
$format="json"; // set format
$tweet=json_decode(file_get_contents("http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/$username.$format")); // get tweets and decode them into a variable

echo $tweet[0]->text; // show latest tweet

For more information, take a look at this.

JQuery Example:

$.getJSON("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/username.json?callback=?", function(data) {
     $("#twitter").html(data[0].text);
});