Converting hyperlinks and twitter users in twitter text

I think the plugin should use the official WordPress method of adding links to tweet text.
https://github.com/mzsanford/twitter-text-php

But a quick, though less comprehensive solution, would be to use this code:

foreach($tweets as $tweet) {
  $tweet_text = $tweet["text"];
  $tweet_text = preg_replace('/http:\/\/([a-z0-9_\.\-\+\&\!\#\~\/\,]+)/i', '<a href="http://$1" target="_blank">http://$1</a>', $tweet_text); //replace links
  $tweet_text = preg_replace('/@([a-z0-9_]+)/i', '<a href="http://twitter.com/$1" target="_blank">@$1</a>', $tweet_text); //replace users
  echo $tweet_text;
}