Zend Framework / get twitter status

[ts2000abc]

I tried to display my twitter status with this code, but it doesn't display anything (no errors, nothing).

 

require_once 'Zend/Service/Twitter.php';
$twitter = new Zend_Service_Twitter('_user_', '_pwd_');
$response = $twitter->status->userTimeline();
$twitterstatus = (string)$response->status[0]->text;
echo $twitterstatus;

 

I can get the status just fine by using the rss reader plugin (ZF library: Zend/Feed.php), but i would like to see if this twitter plugin works faster...