String.prototype.linkify=function(){
	return this.replace(/[A-Za-z]+:\/\/[A-Za-z0-9-_]+\.[A-Za-z0-9-_:%&\?\/.=]+/g,
	function(m){
	return m.replace(m,'<a href="'+m+'" target="_blank">'+m+'</a>'); // This line replaces links with "link>>" to keep the lines short.
	});}

String.prototype.linkuser=function(){
	return this.replace(/[@]+[A-Za-z0-9-_]+/g,
	function(u){
	var username=u.replace("@","")
	return u.link("http://twitter.com/"+username);});};

String.prototype.linktag=function(){
	return this.replace(/[#]+[A-Za-z0-9-_]+/,
	function(t){
	var tag=t.replace("#","%23")
	return t.link("http://search.twitter.com/search?q="+tag);});};
	
	
function twitterCallback2(obj) {
	var twitters = obj;
	var statusHTML = "";
	var username = "";
	for (var i=0; i<twitters.length; i++){
		username = twitters[i].user.screen_name
		statusHTML += ('<span class="tweet">'+twitters[i].text.linkify().linkuser()+'</span>')
	
	}
	document.getElementById('twitter_update_list').innerHTML = statusHTML;
}

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';
  }
}