Why twitter 'status->content' i.e. timeline is saved very odd into mysql?

My app saves tweets into mysql. But the contents of '$status->content' i.e. tweet message are not saved as they appear if outputted. Other values like '?->author->name' and '?->id' are saved as they appear. This is how a tweet msg i.e. '$status->content' look like when I display tables results;

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The results are returned as xml object from my php function & I fetch value开发者_JS百科s of these properties from it.

It's most likely because there is HTML (with a page tracker) in the content. If you look at the original results source, you can see that "status" has a type of "html".

Use:

$clean_content = strip_tags($status->content);

To remove HTML tags and obtain only the text.