<?php
// get twitter.com/2600, and store it in $output
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://twitter.com/2600');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)');
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
// search through $output for the latest tweet
$start_string = '<span class="entry-content">';
$start = strpos($output, $start_string, 0) + strlen($start_string);
$end = strpos($output, '</span>', $start);
$tweet = substr($output, $start, $end-$start);
// display this tweet to the screen
echo(trim($tweet)."\n");
?>