HechteTwitter is a lightweight Twitter client, written in GTK+ and Ruby, whose only elusive goal is not to suck.
Product's homepage
Here are some key features of "HechteTwitter":
· 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)
Requirements:
· gtk+
· Ruby
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· 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