A lightweight desktop Twitter client, written in GTK+ and Ruby, whose only elusive goal is not to suck.

Features

• Timeline viewing (friends, replies, everyone)
• Posting to Twitter
• Setting/unsetting tweets as favorite
• Blocking users
• Replying to tweets
• D-Bus notifications
• Locally cached images (updated if they happen to change)

Missing

• Clickable links (custom tweet widget still immature, but links are achievable through a a popup menu)
• Better performance
• Real threading (well, Ruby's problem, unfortunately)

News

• 2008-05-21 - jumped from version 0.0.4.1 to 0.1, hooray!
• Fixed bug in character count (oh, Ruby, you make me cry)
• Longer timeout for notifications
• Added "source" parameter to new posts, in order to get that lovely "from hechtetwitter" in the timeline

Download

Distributing Ruby apps is usually a pain, so I'll provide a package created with rubyscript2exe for convenience. I've only tested it in Ubuntu Gutsy, so I'd be happy to know it works in your favorite distro. If you wish to install from source, you'll need, apart from Ruby-GNOME, the following gems:

• json
• madeleine
• rbus
• htmlentities

After you've taken care of that, just unpack the source (our check it out of subversion) and run hechtetwitter.rb.

Screenshots

Friends	Everyone

Miscellaneous

• HT v0.0.4.1 Screencast

Many thanks to

My wife's nodding support, @neif and @daigorobr for testing and reporting bugs, and giving essential suggestions for what is now a somewhat usable piece of software.