function twitterSearch(obj) {
	//this is the div I'm writing the content to
	var tDiv = document.getElementById("twitter_update_list");
	var user, bgcolor, tweet, postedAt, userURL;
	tDiv.innerHTML = "";
	for (i = 0; i < obj.results.length; i++) {
		var username = obj.results[i].from_user;
		var status = obj.results[i].text.replace(/((https?|s?ftp|ssh)\:\/\/[^"\s\<\>]*[^.,;'">\:\s\<\>\)\]\!])/g, function(url) {
			return '<a href="' + url + '">' + url + '</a>';
		}).replace(/\B@([_a-z0-9]+)/ig, function(reply) {
			return reply.charAt(0) + '<a href="http://twitter.com/' + reply.substring(1) + '">' + reply.substring(1) + '</a>';
		});


		tDiv.innerHTML += '<li><span>' + status + '</span> <a style="font-size:85%" href="http://twitter.com/' + username + '/statuses/' + obj.results[i].id + '">' + relative_time(obj.results[i].created_at) + '</a></li>';
	}
	//and close the UL
	tDiv.innerHTML += "</ul>";
}

function relative_time(time_value) {
    var values = time_value.split(" ");
    time_value = values[2] + " " + values[1] + ", " + values[3] + " " + values[4];
    var parsed_date = Date.parse(time_value);
    var relative_to = (arguments.length > 1) ? arguments[1] : new Date();
    var delta = parseInt((relative_to.getTime() - parsed_date) / 1000);
    delta = delta + (relative_to.getTimezoneOffset() * 60);
   
    if (delta < 60) {
        return 'less than a minute ago';
    } else if (delta < 120) {
        return 'about a minute ago';
    } else if (delta < (60 * 60)) {
        return (parseInt(delta / 60)).toString() + ' minutes ago';
    } else if (delta < (120 * 60)) {
        return 'about an hour ago';
    } else if (delta < (24 * 60 * 60)) {
        return 'about ' + (parseInt(delta / 3600)).toString() + ' hours ago';
    } else if (delta < (48 * 60 * 60)) {
        return '1 day ago';
    } else {
        return (parseInt(delta / 86400)).toString() + ' days ago';
    }
}