title: How to get Twitter's user's latest tweets in Android
body: <p>I'm developing a small application that, given a user name, it gets the user tweets. It should check for new tweets regularly. The question is how to detect new tweets ?</p>
  
  <p>I use the simple way for getting tweet feed by sending get request on the link </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p><a href="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/userName.json" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/userName.json</a>". </p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>No authentication, no login, no hard stuff (I need your comments also if this method has some disadvatages)</p>
  
  <p>Then, I parse the output JSON object and get the tweets. </p>
  
  <p>For checking new tweets I'm thinking about comparing the date of the last tweet I get with the tweet feed (e.g. 5 tweets) until i reach some one with a date less than or equals the last one I have.</p>
  
  <p>So my questions in short are :</p>
  
  <p>Is the method I use for getting tweets a good solution or have problems? 
  Is there a better way to get the new tweets rather than the one I suggested ?</p>