diff --git a/_layouts/main.html b/_layouts/main.html
index 4d8e64299..67d12397a 100644
--- a/_layouts/main.html
+++ b/_layouts/main.html
@@ -152,39 +152,12 @@ or <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u={{ site.url | cgi_escape }}
 <section>
 {% if page.section == 'main' %}
 <h3><a href="http://twitter.com/b33ts">News from @b33ts</a></h3>
-<script charset="utf-8" src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js"></script>
-<script>
-new TWTR.Widget({
-  version: 2,
-  type: 'profile',
-  rpp: 3,
-  interval: 30000,
-  width: 'auto',
-  height: 300,
-  theme: {
-    shell: {
-      background: '#ffffff',
-      color: '#000000'
-    },
-    tweets: {
-      background: '#ffffff',
-      color: '#000000',
-      links: '#0088cc'
-    }
-  },
-  features: {
-    scrollbar: false,
-    loop: false,
-    live: false,
-    behavior: 'all'
-  }
-}).render().setUser('b33ts').start();
-</script>
-{% else %}
+<ul id="twitterStatus" class="newslist">
+</ul>
+{% endif %}
 <p id="twitterFollow">
     <a href="http://twitter.com/b33ts" class="twitter-follow-button">Follow @b33ts</a>
 </p>
-{% endif %}
 </section>
 <section>
 <h3>Contact</h3>
diff --git a/beets.css b/beets.css
index 33be8e31b..19a356c29 100644
--- a/beets.css
+++ b/beets.css
@@ -136,14 +136,3 @@ ul, ol {
         -webkit-background-size: 140px 140px;
     }
 }
-
-.twtr-ft, .twtr-hd, .twtr-user {
-    display: none;
-}
-.twtr-tweet-wrap {
-    padding-left: 0 !important;
-    padding-right: 0 !important;
-}
-.twtr-widget {
-    margin-bottom: 10px;
-}
diff --git a/beets.js b/beets.js
index 07fa41d1c..ce4761a05 100644
--- a/beets.js
+++ b/beets.js
@@ -23,6 +23,46 @@ function updateBeetsis() {
     });
 }
 
+// Fetch and display the latest messages from the Twitter account.
+var NEWS_COUNT = 3;
+var MONTH_NAMES = [ "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June",
+    "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December" ];
+var urlre = /(http:\/\/([^ \/]+)(\/\S+)?)\b/g;
+function getNews() {
+    var twitterUser = 'b33ts';
+    var url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/'+twitterUser+'.json';
+    $.ajax({
+        url: url,
+        dataType: 'jsonp',
+        success: function(data) {
+            // Find the first non-reply status. This assumes there's at least
+            // one non-reply in this chunk... probably a reasonable assumption.
+            $('#twitterStatus').empty();
+            var count = 0;
+            $.each(data, function(i, status) {
+    			if (status.in_reply_to_screen_name == null) {
+    				// Not a reply.
+
+    				var text = status.text;
+                    text = text.replace(urlre, "<a href=\"$1\">link&nbsp;&raquo;</a>");
+
+                    var date = new Date(Date.parse(status.created_at));
+                    date = MONTH_NAMES[date.getMonth()] + ' ' + date.getDate();
+
+                    $('#twitterStatus').append(
+                        '<li><span class="date">' + date + ':</span> ' +
+                        text + '</li>'
+                    );
+                    count++;
+                    if (count >= NEWS_COUNT)
+                        return false; // break
+    			}
+    		});
+        },
+    });
+}
+
 $(function() {
     setTimeout(updateBeetsis, INTERVAL_INITIAL);
+    getNews();
 });