About the Proof of Concept

The code in the file twitter.pl

This script writes the "following" time line to a specific window.

This script requires that a window be created with the name "twitter-main"

here's a sample of the irssi config file which will create that window.

windows = {
  1 = { immortal = "yes"; name = "(status)"; level = "ALL"; };
  2 = { immortal = "yes"; name = "twitter-main"; };
};

placing this script into the folder ~/.irssi/scripts/autorun will make it always be loaded when Irssi runs.

Using get_replies.pl

Once the script is loaded, you have to set your username and password.

This is done using these commands in Irssi:

/twit_user foo@example.com
/twit_pass supersecretpassword

Your following time line will automatically show up in the window "twitter-main"