Twitter: grabbing a tweet and styling it for my site

'lo folks.

I'm new to this Twitter malarkey; here's what I want to do:

1. Grab the content of my latest tweet and associated timestamp. Not the avatar, username, the twitter logo or anything else.

2. Style that content to hell and back with good ol' CSS.

3. Plop it onto my website.


I've had a look at their widgets, but the style customisation options are basic at best, and all seem to come with extras to display that I can't switch off from the widget. I just want content and timestamp, goddammit

I'd have thought it would be simple, but either my google skills have failed me, or it isn't straightforward at all.

Anyone got any pointers?

Add the following code to the bottom of your page:


Change ARMWILSON to your username.

Then add:


Then style as you want... (Elements included are <a>, <li> and I believe <span>). Should be enough for you to play with.

You could do it via PHP too: http://yoast.com/display-latest-tweet/ - for the caching part, you need to grab the last updated date time yourself, as it's aimed at wordpress.