This plugin retrieves tweets from a twitter account and displays them on your page. The feed is assigned to a smarty variable called {$tweets} which can then be displayed within any template using a {foreach from=$tweets item=item} loop. The status text is parsed so that all the hash tags, links and user names are automatically converted to working links. Dates are outputted as a unix timestamp which can easily be converted into several formats using the “date_format” string modifier. Optionally dates can also be displayed as “friendly” i.e. one hour ago, two minutes ago, yesterday, etc, etc.