$twitter_url = "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/ britishabroad.xml";
$buffer = file_get_contents($twitter_url); $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($buffer); $status_item = $xml -> status; $status = $status_item -> text; echo $status; I am getting an error: Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'String could not be parsed as XML' in /home/bhammers/demophon/dashboard/test.php:5 Stack trace: #0 /home/bhammers/demophon/dashboard/test.php(5): SimpleXMLElement->__construct('') #1 {main} thrown in /home/bhammers/ demophon/dashboard/test.php on line 5 Would appreciate any help. Thanks Colin