Recently, however, the script started stalling out at a certain point and spewing out errors. Apparently a Twitter ID was suspended, gumming up the works. So I added a little rescue to the script at line 39. Hope it helps:

begin
document = REXML::Document.new(@resource["users/#{id}.xml"].get(:accept => ‘text/xml’))

screen_name = document.elements.to_a(‘//screen_name’).first.text
description = document.elements.to_a(‘//description’).first.text
name = document.elements.to_a(‘//name’).first.text

puts name
puts description
puts “http://twitter.com/#{screen_name}”
puts

log.write(“#{name}\n”)
log.write(“#{description}\n”)
log.write(“http://twitter.com/#{screen_name}\n”)
rescue
puts “Sorry, couldn’t retrieve ID #{id} (user may have been suspended).”
puts

log.write(“Sorry, couldn’t retrieve ID #{id} (user may have been suspended).”)
end