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HTML

<div id="target"></div>

JavaScript

( function( global )
{
    var String, $;

    if( global.jQuery )
    {
        String = global.String;
        $ = window.jQuery;

        String.prototype = $.extend( String.prototype, {
            // Parse tweets for URLs and convert to links
            parseURL: function()
            {
                return this.replace( /[A-Za-z]+:\/\/[A-Za-z0-9-_]+\.[A-Za-z0-9-_:%&~\?\/.=]+/g, function( url )
                {
                    return url.link( url );
                } );
            },
            // Parse tweets for twitter usernames and convert to links
            parseUsername: function()
            {
                return this.replace( /@[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+\b/g, function( user )
                {
                    return user.link( 'http://twitter.com/' + user.replace( '@', '' ) );
                } );
            },
            // Parse tweets for hashtags and convert to links
            parseHashtag: function()
            {
                return this.replace( /[#]+[A-Za-z0-9-_]+/g, function( hash )
                {
                    return hash.link( 'http://search.twitter.com/search?q=' + hash.replace( '#', '%23' ) );
                } );
            }
        } );

        $.fn.tweetGet = function( options )
        {
            var defaults = {
                query: 'from:ihatedjlex&rpp=10',
                url: 'http://search.twitter.com/search.json?callback=?&q='
            };

            options = $.extend( defaults, options );

            return this.each( function()
            {
                var target = this;
                // Get tweets from user query
                $.getJSON( options.url + options.query, function( data )
                {
                    var tweets = [];

                    $.each( data.results, function( i, tweet )
                    {
                        tweets.push( '<li>' + tweet.text.parseURL().parseUsername().parseHashtag() + '</li>' );
                    } );

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