now twitter handles linking better, and replaces endlines with <br> tags

source/javascripts/twitter.js

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ var filter_mentions = true;
 var tweet_count = 5;
 var tweet_tag = 'p';
 var twitter_div = 'twitter_status';
+var tweet_cookie = 'the_tweets_' + username;
 
 window.addEvent('domready',function() {
 	getTwitterStatus();
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ function showTweets(the_tweets, from_cookie){
 
 function getTwitterStatus(){
   $(twitter_div).set('html', 'Fetching tweets...');
-  if(!Cookie.read('the_tweets')) {
+  if(!Cookie.read(tweet_cookie)) {
   	var myTwitterGitter = new TwitterGitter(username,{
   	  count: ((!filter_mentions) ? tweet_count : 15 + tweet_count),
   		onComplete: function(tweets,user) {
@@ -37,21 +38,15 @@ function getTwitterStatus(){
   			tweets.each(function(tweet,i) {
   			  if((tweet.in_reply_to_status_id && !filter_mentions) || !tweet.in_reply_to_status_id){
   			    if(the_tweets.length == tweet_count) return;
+  			    tweet.text = tweet.text.replace(/\n/gi, '<br/>');
     			  the_tweets.push(tweet.text);
   				}
   			});
-  			Cookie.write('the_tweets',the_tweets.join('^!^!^!^!^'), { duration: 1 });
+  			Cookie.write(tweet_cookie,the_tweets.join('^!^!^!^!^'), { duration: 1 });
   			showTweets(the_tweets);
   		}
   	}).retrieve();
 	} else {
-	  showTweets(Cookie.read('the_tweets'),true);
+	  showTweets(Cookie.read(tweet_cookie),true);
 	}
 }
-
-//implement string.tweetify();
-String.implement({
-	tweetify: function() {
-		return this.replace(/(https?:\/\/\S+)/gi,'<a href="$1">$1</a>').replace(/(^|\s)@(\w+)/g,'$1<a href="http://twitter.com/$2">@$2</a>').replace(/(^|\s)#(\w+)/g,'$1<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23$2">#$2</a>');
-	}
-});

source/javascripts/twitter_gitter.js

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ var TwitterGitter = new Class({
 	//format
 	linkify: function(text) {
 		//courtesy of Jeremy Parrish (rrish.org)
-		return text.replace(/(https?:\/\/\S+)/gi,'<a href="$1">$1</a>').replace(/(^|\s)@(\w+)/g,'$1<a href="http://twitter.com/$2">@$2</a>').replace(/(^|\s)#(\w+)/g,'$1#<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23$2">$2</a>');
+		return text.replace(/(https?:\/\/\S+)/gi,'<a href="$1">$1</a>').replace(/(^|\s)@(\w+)/g,'$1<a href="http://twitter.com/$2">@$2</a>').replace(/(^|\s)#(\w+)/g,'$1<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23$2">#$2</a>');
 	}
 });
 

stylesheets/partials/_twitter.sass

@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 #twitter
-  font-size: 85%
-  p
+  font-size: 80%
   +border-radius
-    padding: 10px 15px
-    margin-bottom: 15px
-    background: #eee
+  background: #f3f3f3
+  padding: 5px 0
+  p
+    margin: 0 15px
+    padding: 12px 0
+    border-bottom: #ddd 1px dotted
     line-height: 1.625em
+    &:last-child
+      border-bottom: 0