I’m posting this here for future reference as I’ve had use of it in the past.<\/p>\n
\r\n<?php\r\n\/\/ Include to use built-in SimplePie functionality\r\n\/\/ see: http:\/\/simplepie.org\/wiki\/reference\/start for usage\r\n\r\ninclude_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '\/feed.php');\r\nadd_filter( 'wp_feed_cache_transient_lifetime', create_function( '$a', 'return 3600;' ) );\r\n\r\n\/\/ Set feed URL\r\n$rss = fetch_feed('https:\/\/twitter.com\/statuses\/user_timeline\/YOUR_TWITTER_ID.rss');\r\n\r\n\/\/ Checks that the object is created correctly\r\nif (!is_wp_error( $rss ) ) : \r\n $maxitems = $rss->get_item_quantity(3);\r\n \/\/ Build an array of all the items, starting with element 0 (first element).\r\n $rss_items = $rss->get_items(0, $maxitems);\r\nendif;\r\n?>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n<ul id="tweetbox">\r\n\r\n<?php \r\nif ($maxitems == 0) {\r\n echo '<li>Twitter unavailable at this time.';\r\n} else {\r\n foreach ( $rss_items as $item ) : \r\n \t\/\/Fetch the tweet itself\r\n\t$xtwit = $item->get_description();\r\n \/\/Remove the preceding 'username: '\r\n\t$xtwit = substr(strstr($xtwit, ': '), 2, strlen($xtwit));\r\n\t\/\/ Convert URLs into hyperlinks\r\n\t$xtwit = preg_replace("\/(http:\\\/\\\/)(.*?)\\\/([\\w\\.\\\/\\&\\=\\?\\-\\,\\:\\;\\#\\_\\~\\%\\+]*)\/", "<a href=\\"\\\0\\" rel=\\"external\\">\\\0<\/a>", $xtwit);\r\n\t\/\/ Convert usernames (@) into links \r\n\t$xtwit = preg_replace("(@([a-zA-Z0-9\\_]+))", "<a href=\\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/\\\\1\\" rel=\\"external\\">\\\0<\/a>", $xtwit);\r\n\t\/\/ Convert hash tags (#) to links \r\n\t$xtwit = preg_replace('\/(^|\\s)#(\\w+)\/', '\\1<a href="http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=%23\\2" rel="external">#\\2<\/a>', $xtwit);\r\n\t\/\/Specifically for non-English tweets, converts UTF-8 into ISO-8859-1\r\n\t$xtwit = iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1\/\/TRANSLIT", $xtwit);\r\n?>\r\n <li>\r\n\t<span class="update"><?php echo $xtwit; ?><\/span><br \/>\r\n\t<span class="date"><abbr class="timeago" title="<?php echo $item->get_date('c'); ?>"><?php echo $item->get_date('c'); ?><\/abbr><\/span>\r\n <\/li>\r\n<?php \r\nendforeach;\r\nunset($rss); \r\n}\r\n?>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/pre>\n