twitrel is a simple twitter client based on Ruby on Rails. It sorts the timeline of your friends' tweets not only based on when the tweets have been crated, but also takes into account how many tweets your friends are sending. Friends who don't write much are ranked higher so you can keep up with them without having to watch your timeline all the time. ============ Setup ============ You will need to have Ruby on Rails installed on your system. Insert your user name and password into config/environment.rb so that twitrel is able to fetch your friends' timeline (this function in the Twitter API needs authentication because some of your friends might have protected their updates). Before running TwitRel, the twitter4r has to be installed: # sudo gem install twitter4r Run the application in a webrick server with "# script/server". If you want to have twitrel running on your system while also running other webrick servers, you can specify a specific port that webrick should run on with 'script/server -p [port]'. Put '/path/to/twitrel/script/server -p [port] &' into some autostart script if you want to have it always running. You can use the application from your browser using http://localhost:port. If you don't specify a specific port, it defaults to 3000. I use twitrel like a normal application with a link from the desktop using Mozilla Prism. If you want to do this, you will need to install Prism as a browser plugin from Firefox. Then, visit the twitrel website in your browser and click Tools -> "Convert Website to Application".