Get Twitter updates using php

To get Twitter tweets using php 
syntax

curl_init(http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/[user_name].xml)

    eg: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/gmsundar.xml
or
curl_init(http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/[user_id].rss)
    eg: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/5794542.rss

Parse the xml and get the data

we can use the same method in any language