gistfile1.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'net/http'
require 'rss'

if ARGV.length.zero?
  puts "Usage: twit.rb [twitter_handle]"
  exit
end

nickname = ARGV[0]
rest_uri = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/#{nickname}.rss"

tweet_rss = Net::HTTP.get URI.parse(rest_uri)
tweets   = RSS::Parser.parse(tweet_rss, false)

puts "Channel: #{tweets.channel.description}"
puts "Profile: #{tweets.channel.link}\n\n"

tweets.items.each_with_index{|item, i|
  puts "#{i+1}: #{item.description}"
}