From my previous post about fetching Tweets from Twitter by using PHP we're able to search tweet posts with Twitter API help in RSS format (XML). The specification of RSS itself described here. In order to be able to get information needed from the feed, we need to parse it into other form of data which is easy to process with PHP. In this post I will explain how to parse every items on the feed into array.

If you have your own blog which is PHP powered, you can show your tweets on twitter by using PHP easily. According to GET Search Twitter API documentation and Using Search documentation, we can do any search for tweets related to any keyword provided. The resource URL for searching is:

http://search.twitter.com/search.format

where format is the format we would like to get. It could be rss, atom, or even json. The Twitter search API is very powerful, even you can get any tweets which is posted by someone near you.