Twitter timeline using JSON not working anymore

Question

For some reason my Twitter code has stopped working - have Twitter changed their API or something and if so, does anyone know how I can fix my code below?

Thanks for your help,

Osu

JQTWEET = {

    // Set twitter username, number of tweets & id/class to append tweets
    user: 'myusername',
    numTweets: 1,
    appendTo: '#tweet',

    // core function of jqtweet
    loadTweets: function() {
        $.ajax({
            url: 'http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json/',
            type: 'GET',
            dataType: 'jsonp',
            data: {
                screen_name: JQTWEET.user,
                include_rts: true,
                count: JQTWEET.numTweets,
                include_entities: true
            },
            success: function(data, textStatus, xhr) {

             var html = '<div class="tweet">TWEET_TEXT<div class="time">AGO</div>';

                 // append tweets into page
                 for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
                    $(JQTWEET.appendTo).append(
                        html.replace('TWEET_TEXT', JQTWEET.ify.clean(data[i].text))
                            .replace(/USER/g, data[i].user.screen_name)
                            .replace('AGO', JQTWEET.timeAgo(data[i].created_at))
                            .replace(/ID/g, data[i].id_str)
                    );

                 }                  
            }   

        });

    }, 


    /**
      * relative time calculator FROM TWITTER
      * @param {string} twitter date string returned from Twitter API
      * @return {string} relative time like "2 minutes ago"
      */
    timeAgo: function(dateString) {
        var rightNow = new Date();
        var then = new Date(dateString);

        if ($.browser.msie) {
            // IE can't parse these crazy Ruby dates
            then = Date.parse(dateString.replace(/( \+)/, ' UTC$1'));
        }

        var diff = rightNow - then;

        var second = 1000,
        minute = second * 60,
        hour = minute * 60,
        day = hour * 24,
        week = day * 7;

        if (isNaN(diff) || diff < 0) {
            return ""; // return blank string if unknown
        }

        if (diff < second * 2) {
            // within 2 seconds
            return "right now";
        }

        if (diff < minute) {
            return Math.floor(diff / second) + " seconds ago";
        }

        if (diff < minute * 2) {
            return "about 1 minute ago";
        }

        if (diff < hour) {
            return Math.floor(diff / minute) + " minutes ago";
        }

        if (diff < hour * 2) {
            return "about 1 hour ago";
        }

        if (diff < day) {
            return  Math.floor(diff / hour) + " hours ago";
        }

        if (diff > day && diff < day * 2) {
            return "yesterday";
        }

        if (diff < day * 365) {
            return Math.floor(diff / day) + " days ago";
        }

        else {
            return "over a year ago";
        }
    }, // timeAgo()


    /**
      * The Twitalinkahashifyer!
      * http://www.dustindiaz.com/basement/ify.html
      * Eg:
      * ify.clean('your tweet text');
      */
    ify:  {
      link: function(tweet) {
        return tweet.replace(/\b(((https*\:\/\/)|www\.)[^\"\']+?)(([!?,.\)]+)?(\s|$))/g, function(link, m1, m2, m3, m4) {
          var http = m2.match(/w/) ? 'http://' : '';
          return '<a class="twtr-hyperlink" target="_blank" href="' + http + m1 + '">' + ((m1.length > 25) ? m1.substr(0, 24) + '...' : m1) + '</a>' + m4;
        });
      },

      at: function(tweet) {
        return tweet.replace(/\B[@＠]([a-zA-Z0-9_]{1,20})/g, function(m, username) {
          return '<a target="_blank" class="twtr-atreply" href="http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=' + username + '">@' + username + '</a>';
        });
      },

      list: function(tweet) {
        return tweet.replace(/\B[@＠]([a-zA-Z0-9_]{1,20}\/\w+)/g, function(m, userlist) {
          return '<a target="_blank" class="twtr-atreply" href="http://twitter.com/' + userlist + '">@' + userlist + '</a>';
        });
      },

      hash: function(tweet) {
        return tweet.replace(/(^|\s+)#(\w+)/gi, function(m, before, hash) {
          return before + '<a target="_blank" class="twtr-hashtag" href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23' + hash + '">#' + hash + '</a>';
        });
      },

      clean: function(tweet) {
        return this.hash(this.at(this.list(this.link(tweet))));
      }
    } // ify


};

Answer 1

For a Javascript-only solution, without fussing with oAuth authentication, you could check out this script

Answer 2

It looks like your code is referencing version 1 of the API, which has been deprecated. Version 1.1 of the API is what is currently supported.

Check this page in the Twitter API documentation for the correct way to reference the 1.1 version of the call you are using.