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Twitter Linkify (PHP)

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function linkify_twitter_status($status_text)
{
  // linkify URLs
  $status_text = preg_replace(
    '/(https?:\/\/\S+)/',
    '&lt;a href="\1"&gt;\1&lt;/a&gt;',
    $status_text
  );
 
  // linkify twitter users
  $status_text = preg_replace(
    '/(^|\s)@(\w+)/',
    '\1@&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/\2"&gt;\2&lt;/a&gt;',
    $status_text
  );
 
  // linkify tags
  $status_text = preg_replace(
    '/(^|\s)#(\w+)/',
    '\1#&lt;a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23\2"&gt;\2&lt;/a&gt;',
    $status_text
  );
 
  return $status_text;
}