twittool is a tool for doing things with twitter at the command prompt. It's made in VB.NET and I have no plans for migrate it to another language. The choice is because I'm starting up a BASIC compiler, and need ideas for targetting the IL. At the time being, it's only a pre-pre-pre-alfa tool, and I don't know if it will grow into a complete thing. It started being a hack for connecting to twitter, as an attempt to make a more discrete client, that do not bloat the screen so we can use it at office without being too obvious, as an exercise to implement XMPP/GTalk protocols and for helping me get rid of non-relevant messages, as twitter is becoming a chat rather than a tumble blog. That's why it doesn't have a UI. I tried ttytter, but I couldn't make it run well in Windows (and am lazy at Perl).
twittool is supposed to connect to GTalk (it doesn't yet, lots of bugs and unimplemented things). It is supposed to bring up relevant messages, according to user rules. That doesn't work, either. It may have a IRC look and feel, not for imitation, rather it is supposed to be a working and simple thing that works and let you work. Twitter is getting more and more used like a chat and as such, it sucks all the precious hacking/working time, so you may not want to read fast conversations. Rather users may want messages more organized. And un-following people is a very drastic measure. The idea is to keep in touch with people and make a smart engine that could decide which messages are more relevant to the user and highlight them. Other messages may keep scrolling behind. For example, you don't want to miss messages mentioning @you. And you are interested in certain keywords, or in not to miss certain people that twitt in rather rare ocassions. More ideas to come. Later.
Here, but please be patient. I need to do some work in the cache, I don't want to be sued by the legal departmentwitt :-)