getTwitters('tweets', {
        id: 'PuffinGouda',
        clearContents: false,
        count: 4,
        timeout: 5,
        onTimeout: function () {
            this.innerHTML = '<p>It seems Twitter is down</p>';
        },
        onTimeoutCancel: true, // don't allow twitter to finsih the job
        ignoreReplies: true,
        template: '<em>%time%</em><br />%text%'
    });