If the Twitter ID doesn't exist, the nametag is still created but is empty.
A simple test for this could be a null length object from the getJSON call
Twitter.com isn't tested to see if it is available. We need to ensure Twitter is responding and throw a friendly error for humans if it isn't.
Let's start by testing for a non-200 HTTP Response Code from the tweeturl variable
The jsXHR object looks useful here for response codes and hopefully a null state as well: http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/#jqXHR
From Issue #2: