Twitter for WordPress – some of the css won’t work

The plugin widget displays the date correctly, but the themes css conflicts. The part of each tweet that has a link inherits the css from the other list items or links in the sidebar, and even if I specify something different or none, it will not change.

For example – all my links in categories have a underline (actually just a border-bottom) and a image before them as a list item.

When the tweets display, it shows the first part of the tweet, then the link by itself with the underline and arrow image, then another line has the timestamp with the beginning of the following tweet.

I’ve tried every way I can think of to change it. I can change other parts of the CSS that effects the link (like adding a border above it) but can’t get rid of the rest.

This is the mess currently in my stylesheet:

a.twitter-link {
list-style-type: circle;
list-style-image: none;
border-style: none;
border-top: solid 2px;
border-bottom: none;
background: yellow;
display: inline;
font-size: 0.5em;
}