I just made script that fetch twitter timeline and display to Snarl.

It's only Snarl + Ruby. Snarl is system notification tool that like Growl for Mac OS X. You have to download Snarl from here(Snarl :: Homepage). Also need following ruby libraries.

• RubyForge: Ruby-Snarl: Project Info
• Ruby-JSON : JSON implementation for Ruby

Script

	# Simplest twitter client (only for gets)
	# twiget.rb
	# usage:
	# ruby twiget.rb 10
	# => friends timeline から 最新10件取得
	require 'net/http'
	require 'kconv'
	require 'rubygems'
	require 'snarl'
	require 'json'
	max_count = ARGV.shift.to_i
	Net::HTTP.version_1_2
	req = Net::HTTP::Get.new('/statuses/friends_timeline.json')
	req.basic_auth "user_id", "password" # user_id, password を自分のものにしてね。
	# proxyサーバを適当に変更してね。
	Net::HTTP::Proxy('proxy_server', 8080).start('twitter.com') {|http|
	res = http.request(req)
	if res.code == '200'
	result = JSON.parser.new(res.body).parse()
	result.length.times do |i|
	exit 0 if i >= max_count
	puts screen_name = result[i]["user"]["screen_name"]
	puts text = result[i]["text"]
	Snarl.show_message("Twiget: #{screen_name}", "#{text}", nil, 10)
	sleep 1
	end
	else
	Snarl.show_message("Twiget error", "code is #{res.code}", nil, 10)
	end
	}

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Usage

You have to change following settings.

• user_id
• password
• proxy_serer
• proxy port

Command line parameter is ...

• Num of messages