function populateTwitterSidebar(obj) {
  var twitters = obj;
  var statusHTML = "";
  var username = "";
  for (var i=0; i<twitters.length; i++)
  {
    username = twitters[i].user.screen_name
    statusHTML += ("<li class='tweet-"+ (i+1) +"'><span class='body'>"+htmlifyTweet(twitters[i].text)+"</span> <a class='tweet-link' target='" + twitterLinkTarget +"' href='http://twitter.com/"+username+"/statuses/"+twitters[i].id+"'>"+relative_time(twitters[i].created_at)+"</a></li>")
  }
  document.getElementById('twitter-feed').innerHTML = statusHTML;
}

function htmlifyTweet(tweet) {
  var txt = tweet.replace(
    /(https?:\/\/[-a-z0-9._~:\/?#@!$&\'()*+,;=%]+)/ig,
    '<a target="' + twitterLinkTarget + '" href="$1">$1</a>'
  ).replace(
    /@+([_A-Za-z0-9-]+)/ig, 
    '<a target="' + twitterLinkTarget + '" href="http://twitter.com/$1">@$1</a>'
  ).replace(
    /#+([_A-Za-z0-9-]+)/ig,
    '<a target="' + twitterLinkTarget + '" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23$1">'
        +'#$1</a>'
  );
  return txt
}

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';
  }
}