var statusHTML;
var relTime;
var newsHTML = "";
var timeHTML = "";
var index = 0;

var username;
var twitId;

var intervalId;

function myTwitterCallback(twitters) {
    /*for (*/var i=0;/* i<twitters.length; i++){*/
    username = twitters[i].user.screen_name;
    var status = twitters[i].text.replace(/((https?|s?ftp|ssh)\:\/\/[^"\s\<\>]*[^.,;'">\:\s\<\>\)\]\!])/g, function(url) {
      return '<a href="'+url+'">'+url+'</a>';
    }).replace(/\B@([_a-z0-9]+)/ig, function(reply) {
      return  reply.charAt(0)+'<a href="http://twitter.com/'+reply.substring(1)+'">'+reply.substring(1)+'</a>';
    });
	relTime = relative_time(twitters[i].created_at);
	twitId = twitters[i].id;
    statusHTML = ('" '+status+' "');
 	// }
  
  setTimeout('printNewsChar()', 33);
}

function printNewsChar()
{
	newsHTML += statusHTML.charAt(index);
	index++;
	
	document.getElementById('twitter_update_list').innerHTML = '<h2>' + newsHTML + '</h2>';
	
	if(index < statusHTML.length)
	{
		setTimeout('printNewsChar()', 33);
	} else
	{
		index = 0;
		setTimeout('printTimeChar()', 50);
	}
	
	Cufon.replace('h2');
}

function printTimeChar()
{
	timeHTML += relTime.charAt(index);
	index++;
	
	document.getElementById('twitter_update_list').innerHTML = "<h2>" + newsHTML + '<div style="line-height:0.5em;text-align:right;"><a style="font-size:8px;" target="_new" href="http://twitter.com/'+username+'/statuses/'+twitId+'">' + timeHTML + '</a></div></h2>';
	
	if(index < relTime.length)
	{
		setTimeout('printTimeChar()', 50);
	}
	
	Cufon.replace('h2', { hover: true });
}

function relative_time(time_value) {
  var values = time_value.split(" ");
  time_value = values[1] + " " + values[2] + ", " + values[5] + " " + values[3];
  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);
  delta = delta + (relative_to.getTimezoneOffset() * 60);

  if (delta < 60) {
    return 'less than a minute ago';
  } else if(delta < 120) {
    return 'about a minute ago';
  } else if(delta < (60*60)) {
    return (parseInt(delta / 60)).toString() + ' minutes ago';
  } else if(delta < (120*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';
  }
}