<div class="twitter_search" title="#obama"></div>

<div class="twitter_search" title="#python"></div>
<div class="twitter_search" title="#jquery"></div>

// Number of tweets to show for each column
var MAX_RESULTS = 20;
function twitter_search() {
	var url = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.json?callback=?';
	// Iterating over the different search columns
	$('.twitter_search').each(function() {
		var container = $(this);
		// Search terms are specified in the 'title' attribute
		var search = container.attr('title');
		if (search) {
			// Showing column title
			if (container.siblings('h1').length == 0) {
				container.parent().prepend('<h1>' + search + '</h1>');
			}
			var since_id = 0;
			if (container.children().length) {
				// Retrieve results since this id
				since_id = container.children(':first').attr('id').replace('#', '');
			}
			// Request the results
			$.getJSON(url, {'q': search, 'since_id': since_id}, function(data) {
				// Processing those results, if any
				if (data.results.length) {
					for (i in data.results.reverse()) {
						var r = data.results[i];
						// Creating the result container
						var div = $('<div id="#' + r.id + '"></div>');
						// Don't show this element now
						div.hide();
						// Adding some styles through .twitter_result
						div.addClass('twitter_result');
						// Adding user's image
						div.append('<img src="' + r.profile_image_url + '" alt="' + r.from_user + '" />');
						// Adding username
						div.append('<a href="http://twitter.com/' + r.from_user + '">' + r.from_user + '</a>');
						// Adding tweet
						div.append('<span>' + r.text + '</span>');
						// Adding corners
						div.corner();
						// Adding this result to the main container
						container.prepend(div);
						// Effect
						div.slideDown('slow');
					}
				}
				// Removing old tweets
				if (container.children().length > MAX_RESULTS) {
					// Negative index
					to_remove = MAX_RESULTS - container.children().length
					container.children().slice(to_remove).each(function() {
						$(this).slideUp();
					});
				}
			});
		}
	});
};
 
$(document).ready(function() {
	// Initial search 
	twitter_search();
	// Refresh the results every 5 seconds
	setInterval("twitter_search();", 5000);
});