Tweet_Parser

Tweet_Parser is around 50 lines of code, but it will work like a charm, taking text from tweet-like text and linkifying it.

By linkifying we mean taking "@username" and "#hashtag" terms and converting them into actual Twitter links.

@username will be transform into a link pointing to someone's Twitter profile like twitter.com/username, while #hashtag will be redirected to the proper Twitter search page in the form of twitter.com/search/hashtag.

Tweet_Parser works with the latest version of the Twitter API, version 1.1.

If you like what the library does, you can also have it as a jQuery plugin via the tweetParser.js project.