After switching back my home computer to Linux I was disappointed with twitter clients available so I wrote my own. Okay I didn’t really write it, but I did chain together some curl commands with some ruby to fit my needs.

Running the program with some arguments will update your twitter to said arguments. If you run the program without any arguments it will print out your friends statuses (statusi?) with some cool colors.

• ruby
• The xml-simple gem
• curl
• A twitter account

Create a .twitterrc file in your home directory. This needs to have two lines in it. The first line is your username, the second line is your password.

Hope this works for you, it does for me. I’m not responsible if it does something terrible to you, your computer, or your twitter account. Good luck!