Tweet Alert! [or more colloquially...Tweet Stalker.]

The Product.

The Tweet Alert/Tweet Stalker is a device for alerting you when one of your very favorite Tweeters (whether they be friend or celebrity) posts a Tweet. Currently, you hardcode the usernames into a PHP file, but in future permutations this could easily be integrated into a web form. Then when one of these people tweets, the light turns on in real time (give or take a couple seconds depending on where in the loop cycle you hit it).

The current usernames are mine and Kenny's a test account of my own and a fourth account that we created just for this experiment. Further documentation and the code follows below.

The Code.

For some reason the code never shows up properly on Typepad. To see the full code, you can read it on my documentation blog.