I think this is a better example of why you need to have code in place to fail gracefully. try { file_get_contents(http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timel

I think this is a better example of why you need to have code in place to fail gracefully. try { file_get_contents(http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=williamMalone http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_n...); } catch (Exception $e) { } OR if ($contents = @file_get_contents(http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=williamMalone) http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_n...) { //stuff }