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

Usage

You have to change following settings.

• user_id
• password
• proxy_serer
• proxy port

Command line parameter is ...

• Num of messages