micc83/Twitter-API-1.1-Client-for-Wordpress — pull request #4 by jhebb (2013-11-14 16:11:39+00:00)
Title: Switch to json_decode for unicode character issue

Found this (http://php.net/manual/en/function.serialize.php#92284) while researching the unicode character issue which says that json_decode() is faster than unserialize().

Seemed to work for me!