function get_status($twitter_id) {
	if(!$xml=simplexml_load_file('http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/' .$twitter_id .'.xml?count=1')){
		trigger_error('Error reading XML file',E_USER_ERROR);
	}
	$status = $xml->status->text;
	$status=preg_replace("/(http:\/\/|www|[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.|[a-zA-Z0-9\.-]+@)(([a-zA-Z0-9-][a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.)+[a-zA-Z0-9-\.\/\_\?\%\#\&\=\;\~\!\(\)]+)/","<a 
href=\"http://\\1\\2\">\\1\\2</a>",$status);
  
	echo '<p>' .preg_replace('/(^|[^\w])@([\d\w\-]+)/', '\\1<a href="http://twitter.com/$2">@$2</a>' ,$status) .'</p>';

	echo '<div class="tweet_time">Posted from ' .$xml->status->source .' on '.substr($xml->status->created_at, 0, 10) .'</div>';
}