Simple Pie "set_item_limit" doesn't - simplepie

Question

I'm struggling to get set_item_limit to work. The feed comes in fine, but just renders every post. Here's the code I'm using:
// Make sure SimplePie is included. You may need to change this to match the location of autoloader.php
// For 1.0-1.2:
#require_once('../simplepie.inc');
// For 1.3+:
require_once('php/autoloader.php');
// process this feed with all of the default options.
$feed = new SimplePie();
// Set which feed to process. http://simplepie.org/blog/feed/
$feed->set_feed_url('https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=Tweet_Yourself');
// Run SimplePie.
$feed->set_item_limit(5);
$feed->init();
// This makes sure that the content is sent to the browser as text/html and the UTF-8 character set (since we didn't change it).
$feed->handle_content_type();
And here's the HTMLy bit:
<?php
//loop through all of the items in the feed, and $item represents the current item in the loop.
foreach ($feed->get_items() as $item): ?>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="100" align="left"><img src="sitewise/Tweet_Yourself_avatar.gif" alt="TweetYourself Twitter Feed" /></td>
<td>
<div class="item">
<h3><i><?php echo $item->get_title(); ?></i></h3>
<?php echo $item->get_description(); ?>
<p><small>Posted on <?php echo $item->get_date('j F Y | g:i a'); ?></small></p>
<hr />
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<?php endforeach; ?>
The table isn't the issue!
Any ideas?

Answer 1

The issue is
$feed->set_item_limit(5);
Is for merging feeds and not for a single feed.... you need to
change
foreach ($feed->get_items() as $item): ?>
to
foreach ($feed->get_items(0, 5) as $item): ?>
This would limit it to 5 items
SimplePIE Get_ITEMS