Question

This is going to be a bit more vague than usual as I am looking for direction and don’t really have any code to share, yet.

On my business webpage there is a jquery plugin welcome message (growl style) that is populated by the text I have typed into the JS file. In my hopes to make changing this text easier for my employees I was hoping I could somehow get my most recent tweet into a variable that I could then display automatically… this way there is no changing of code needed.

My hope was to somehow take a string like, “This is a title:this is the message” and be able to separate them into 2 different variable by means of the colon as a seperator. Then I could display these variable using their var name.

This would be an example of the final product, minus the twitter parsing:

jQuery(function($) {
            $("#stdWelcome").ready(function(){
                growlwelcomeid = ("gs"+$.Growl._statsCount);
                $.Growl.show(TwitterMessage, {
                  'title'  : TwitterTitle,
                  'icon'   : "star",
                  'timeout': "10000",
                  'speed': "900"
                });
              });
        }); 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

UPDATE:

So how would something like this look:

var Wusername = "username"; 
var Wurl = 'http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/'+Wusername+'.json?callback=?'; 

$.getJSON(Wurl, function(tweet){ 
    $Wtitle = tweet[0].text.split('|');
}); 

jQuery(function($) {
            $("#stdWelcome").ready(function(){
                growlwelcomeid = ("gs"+$.Growl._statsCount);
                $.Growl.show(Wtitle[1], {
                  'title'  : Wtitle[0],
                  'icon'   : "star",
                  'timeout': "10000",
                  'speed': "900"
                });
              });
        }); 

Thanks again!

Answer 1

If you had the title and message as seperate tweets you could do the following

var username = "twitter username";
var url = 'http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/'+username+'.json?callback=?';

$.getJSON(url, function(tweet){
    $title = tweet[0].text;
    $message = tweet[1].text;
});