    getTwitters('ptrkmkltweets', {
        id: 'nslearning', 
        timeout: 4000,
        onTimeout: function () {
            this.innerHTML = 'Actually, Twitter is down right now, but you can <a href="http://twitter.com/ptrkmkl">follow me</a> if you like!';
        },
        onTimeoutCancel: true, // don't allow twitter to finsih the job       
        clearContents: false, // leave the original message in place
        count: 1, 
        withFriends: true,
        ignoreReplies: true,
        template: '<span class="twitterPrefix"><span class="twitterStatus">"%text%"</span> <span class="twitterTime">&rarr; <a href="http://twitter.com/%user_screen_name%/statuses/%id%">%time%</a></span></span>'
    });
