PHP Twitter feed

function fetch_twitter_feed($since = 0) {
    	$url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?count=3&screen_name=twittername';
    	if($since > 0) {
    		$url .= '&since_id=' . $since;
   	}
    	$data = @file_get_contents($url);
    	if($data == false) return 'Tweets unavailable';
 
    	$xmlDoc = DOMDocument::loadXML($data);
	$statuses = $xmlDoc->getElementsByTagName('status');
	$updates = array();
 
	if($statuses->length > 0) {
	foreach($statuses as $status) {
		$id = $status->getElementsByTagName('id')->item(0)->nodeValue;
		$text = $status->getElementsByTagName('text')->item(0)->nodeValue;
		$date = strtotime($status->getElementsByTagName('created_at')->item(0)->nodeValue);
		$updates[] = array($id, $text, $date);
	} }
 
return $updates;
}
 
$updates = fetch_twitter_feed();
if(empty($updates)) { ?>
	<p style="font-size:10px;">No Tweets Yet!</p>
<? } else if($updates == 'Twitter unavailable') { ?>
	<p style="font-size:10px;>Tweets unavailable</p>
<? } else {
foreach($updates as $update) {
	$text = substr($update[1], 0,50);
	if(strlen($text) == 50) $text .= '...';
	$date = date('d.m.y', $update[2]); ?>
 
	<p style="font-size:10px;"><a href="http://twitter.com/twittername/status/<? echo $update[0]; ?>" target="_blank"><?php echo $text; ?></a></p>
<?php } 
} ?>