function getTweets() {
    $.getJSON("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/blackbluegroup.json?count=3&callback=?",
        function(data) {
            var tweets ="";
            $.each(data, function(i,item) {                
                tweets += "<li>"
                        + twitterfy(item.text)
                        + "<br /><a href=\"http://twitter.com/"
                        + item.user.screen_name
                        + "/status/"
                        + item.id
                        + "/\" class=\"date\">"
                        + relative_time(item.created_at)
                        + "</a></li>";
            });
            $("#tweets ul").fadeOut(function(){
                $(this).html(tweets).fadeIn()
                .children("li").children("a").click(function(){
                    window.open(this.href);
                    return false;
                });
            });
        });
	}
/* Adapted from Tweet! by http://tweet.seaofclouds.com/ */
function twitterfy(text) {
    text = text.replace(/((ftp|http|https):\/\/(\w+:{0,1}\w*@)?(\S+)(:[0-9]+)?(\/|\/([\w#!:.?+=&%@!\-\/]))?)/gi,"<a href=\"$1\">$1</a>")
    return text.replace(/[\@]+([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)/gi,"@<a href=\"http://twitter.com/$1\">$1</a>");
}
function relative_time(time_value) {
    var parsed_date = Date.parse(time_value);
    var relative_to = (arguments.length > 1) ? arguments[1] : new Date();
    var delta = parseInt((relative_to.getTime() - parsed_date) / 1000);
    if(delta < 60) {
        return 'less than a minute ago';
    } else if(delta < 120) {
        return 'about a minute ago';
    } else if(delta < (45*60)) {
        return (parseInt(delta / 60)).toString() + ' minutes ago';
    } else if(delta < (90*60)) {
        return 'about an hour ago';
    } else if(delta < (24*60*60)) {
        return 'about ' + (parseInt(delta / 3600)).toString() + ' hours ago';
    } else if(delta < (48*60*60)) {
        return '1 day ago';
    } else {
        return (parseInt(delta / 86400)).toString() + ' days ago';
    }
}