title: Why are the Twitter api calls so slow?
body: <p>When I execute the following code it takes between 10-12 seconds to respond. </p>
  
  <p>Is the problem with Twitter or with our server? </p>
  
  <p>I really need to know as this is part of the code to display tweets on our website and a 12 second load time is just not acceptable!</p>
  
  <pre><code>function get_latest_tweets($username)
    {
      print "&lt;font color=red&gt;**". time()."**&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;";
      $path = 'http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/' . $username.'.json?include_rts=true&amp;count=2';
      $jason = file_get_contents($path);
      print "&lt;font color=red&gt;**". time()."**&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;";
    }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>