Periodic executor help

Periodic executor help

Hello everyone,

Pretty new to jquery here, but I'm liking it a lot. I'm working on a project at my job where we are using twitter to track employee locations and I want to make a periodic executor that will grab my twitter account's rss feed and save it locally to my machine.

Then, I want a periodic executor for each employee (only about 10 right now, it's for my department) that will check this saved file for that employee's last update and do a nice fadeout/fade in on the main monitoring webpage.

I think I have it all worked out in my head, but like I said, I'm still pretty new to jquery, so does anyone have any experience with doing these types of periodic executor type things that can give me some hints on how to do something like this?

Thanks!