Beginner getting a grasp of MVC/CI/PHP and Twitter library

[eluser]jpcody[/eluser]
Hey folks, forgive me if what I'm asking is far too simple, but I'm trying to get a good grasp on things and move from HTML and CSS to more advanced development. I'm trying to implement Simon Maddox's Twitter library to pull the user names, profile pictures and updates of a handful of people on Twitter, then display the information.

I was hoping the community, along with the user guide and php.net could give me a little help with this. Are my fundamentals correct?

• I'll autoload the Twitter library after installation.
• Create a table to store the updates
• Create a model that will plug the user name, ID, etc. into the table
• Create a controller function that will plug the info from Twitter into the table
• Create a controller function that will pass the info from the table to a view
• Create a view which will display the final information

Is this the right way to create this? Can I remove the database/model steps and simply pull from Twitter to display in a view?

Is it bad form to ask the community to guide me through this process of my first CI implementation, post my code along the way, etc?

Thanks so much for your help on this.