Twitter Library - How does it work?

[eluser]Phil Sturgeon[/eluser]
Well if you arent using XML then I wouldn't expect simpleXML to work ;-)

var_dump the returned result to see whats happening, then react accordingly.

Like I said, I've never had an issue with the Twitter library and XML but seems like you are getting encoding issues. JSON will avoid character encoding issues such as unescpaed HTML entities so its much easier to work with.