I would like to create a twitter widget using JQuery - where should I start?

After asking the following questions:

Question 1: Are there any good JQuery twitter widgets which loop over tweets?

Question 2: How do I change the number of loaded tweets in my JQuery widget?

I found that there are no twitter widgets out there that really perform what I want to do. So I have come to the conclusion that I should write my own to achieve what I want.

I'm fairly new to JQuery, I've only really ever edited existing code so are there any good tutorials out there?

Also I'm not 100% sure if what I want to achieve is possible using just JQuery and CSS so I'm 开发者_高级运维going to write what I would like the widget to do.

Functionality:

Load tweets from a specific user

Loop over loaded tweet results

Interface:

Tweets fade in and fade out

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I'd advise you to start at http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Authoring. Apologies for such a generic answer but the guidelines really do help and sort of say it all really.

Good luck!