$ sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-full

$ sudo gem install twitter

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require "rubygems"
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require "twitter"
=> true

irb(main):003:0> puts Twitter.user_timeline("developerworks").first.text
dW Twitter is saving #IBM over $600K per month: will #Google+ add to that? > 
http://t.co/HiRwir7 #Tech #webdesign #Socialmedia #webapp #app
=> nil

irb(main):004:0> puts Twitter.user("MTimJones").location
Colorado, USA
=> nil

irb(main):005:0> search = Twitter::Search.new
=> #<Twitter::Search:0xb7437e04 @oauth_token_secret=nil, 
    @endpoint="https://api.twitter.com/1/", 
    @user_agent="Twitter Ruby Gem 1.6.0", 
    @oauth_token=nil, @consumer_secret=nil, 
    @search_endpoint="https://search.twitter.com/", 
    @query={:tude=>[], :q=>[]}, @cache=nil, @gateway=nil, @consumer_key=nil, 
    @proxy=nil, @format=:json, @adapter=:net_http<
irb(main):006:0> search.containing("why").to("LulzSec").
result_type("recent").each do |r| puts r.text end
@LulzSec why not stop posting <bleep> and get a full time job! MYSQLi isn't 
hacking you <bleep>.
...
irb(main):007:0> 

irb(main):007:0> puts Twitter.user("MTimJones")
<#Hashie::Mash 
  contributors_enabled=false 
  created_at="Wed Oct 08 20:40:53 +0000 2008" 
  default_profile=false default_profile_image=false 
  description="Platform Architect and author (Linux, Embedded, Networking, AI)."
  favourites_count=1 
  follow_request_sent=nil 
  followers_count=148 
  following=nil 
  friends_count=96 
  geo_enabled=true 
  id=16655901 id_str="16655901" 
  is_translator=false 
  lang="en" 
  listed_count=10 
  location="Colorado, USA" 
  name="M. Tim Jones" 
  notifications=nil 
  profile_background_color="1A1B1F" 
  profile_background_image_url="..."
  profile_background_image_url_https="..." 
  profile_background_tile=false 
  profile_image_url="http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/851508584/bio_mtjones_normal.JPG" 
  profile_image_url_https="..." 
  profile_link_color="2FC2EF" 
  profile_sidebar_border_color="181A1E" profile_sidebar_fill_color="252429" 
  profile_text_color="666666" 
  profile_use_background_image=true 
  protected=false 
  screen_name="MTimJones" 
  show_all_inline_media=false 
  status=<#Hashie::Mash 
    contributors=nil coordinates=nil 
    created_at="Sat Jul 02 02:03:24 +0000 2011" 
    favorited=false 
    geo=nil 
    id=86978247602094080 id_str="86978247602094080" 
    in_reply_to_screen_name="AnonymousIRC" 
    in_reply_to_status_id=nil in_reply_to_status_id_str=nil 
    in_reply_to_user_id=225663702 in_reply_to_user_id_str="225663702" 
    place=<#Hashie::Mash 
      attributes=<#Hashie::Mash> 
      bounding_box=<#Hashie::Mash 
        coordinates=[[[-105.178387, 40.12596], 
                      [-105.034397, 40.12596], 
                      [-105.034397, 40.203495], 
                      [-105.178387, 40.203495]]] 
        type="Polygon"
      > 
      country="United States" country_code="US" 
      full_name="Longmont, CO" 
      id="2736a5db074e8201" 
      name="Longmont" place_type="city" 
      url="http://api.twitter.com/1/geo/id/2736a5db074e8201.json"
    > 
    retweet_count=0 
    retweeted=false 
    source="web" 
    text="@AnonymousIRC @anonymouSabu @LulzSec @atopiary @Anonakomis Practical reading 
          for future reference... LULZ \"Prison 101\" http://t.co/sf8jIH9" truncated=false
  >
  statuses_count=79 
  time_zone="Mountain Time (US & Canada)" 
  url="http://www.mtjones.com" 
  utc_offset=-25200 
  verified=false
>
=> nil
irb(main):008:0> 

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "rubygems"
require "twitter"

screen_name = String.new ARGV[0]

a_user = Twitter.user(screen_name)

if a_user.protected != true

  puts "Username   : " + a_user.screen_name.to_s
  puts "Name       : " + a_user.name
  puts "Id         : " + a_user.id_str
  puts "Location   : " + a_user.location
  puts "User since : " + a_user.created_at.to_s
  puts "Bio        : " + a_user.description.to_s
  puts "Followers  : " + a_user.followers_count.to_s
  puts "Friends    : " + a_user.friends_count.to_s
  puts "Listed Cnt : " + a_user.listed_count.to_s
  puts "Tweet Cnt  : " + a_user.statuses_count.to_s
  puts "Geocoded   : " + a_user.geo_enabled.to_s
  puts "Language   : " + a_user.lang
  if (a_user.url != nil)
    puts "URL        : " + a_user.url.to_s
  end
  if (a_user.time_zone != nil)
    puts "Time Zone  : " + a_user.time_zone
  end
  puts "Verified   : " + a_user.verified.to_s
  puts

  tweet = Twitter.user_timeline(screen_name).first

  puts "Tweet time : " + tweet.created_at
  puts "Tweet ID   : " + tweet.id.to_s
  puts "Tweet text : " + tweet.text

end

$ ./user.rb developerworks
Username   : developerworks
Name       : developerworks
Id         : 16362921
Location   : 
User since : Fri Sep 19 13:10:39 +0000 2008
Bio        : IBM's premier Web site for Java, Android, Linux, Open Source, PHP, Social, 
Cloud Computing, Google, jQuery, and Web developer educational resources
Followers  : 48439
Friends    : 46299
Listed Cnt : 3801
Tweet Cnt  : 9831
Geocoded   : false
Language   : en
URL        : http://bit.ly/EQ7te
Time Zone  : Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Verified   : false

Tweet time : Sun Jul 17 01:04:46 +0000 2011
Tweet ID   : 92399309022167040
Tweet text : dW Twitter is saving #IBM over $600K per month: will #Google+ add to that? > 
http://t.co/HiRwir7 #Tech #webdesign #Socialmedia #webapp #app

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "rubygems"
require "twitter"
require 'google_chart'

name = String.new ARGV[0]

user = Hash.new

# Iterate friends, hash their followers
friends = Twitter.friend_ids(name)

friends.ids.each do |fid|

  f = Twitter.user(fid)

  # Only iterate if we can see their followers
  if (f.protected.to_s != "true")
    user[f.screen_name.to_s] = f.followers_count
  end

end

user.sort_by {|k,v| -v}.each { |user, count| puts "#{user}, #{count}" }

$ ./friends.rb MTimJones
RWW, 1096862
PlayStation, 1026634
HarvardBiz, 541139
tedtalks, 526886
lifehacker, 146162
wandfc, 121683
AnonymousIRC, 117896
iTunesPodcasts, 82581
adultswim, 76188
forrester, 72945
googleresearch, 66318
Gartner_inc, 57468
developerworks, 48518

$ gem install gchartrb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "rubygems"
require "twitter"
require 'google_chart'

screen_name = String.new ARGV[0]

tweetlocation = Hash.new
timezones = 0.0

# Authenticate
Twitter.configure do |config|
  config.consumer_key = '<consumer_key>'
  config.consumer_secret = '<consumer_secret>'
  config.oauth_token = '<oath_token>'
  config.oauth_token_secret = '<oath_token_secret>'
end

cursor = "-1"

# Loop through all pages
while cursor != 0 do

  # Iterate followers, hash their location
  followers = Twitter.follower_ids(screen_name, :cursor=>cursor)

  followers.ids.each do |fid|

    f = Twitter.user(fid)

    loc = f.time_zone.to_s

    if (loc.length > 0)

      if tweetlocation.has_key?(loc)
        tweetlocation[loc] = tweetlocation[loc] + 1
      else
        tweetlocation[loc] = 1
      end

      timezones = timezones + 1.0

    end

  end

  cursor = followers.next_cursor

end

# Create a pie chart
GoogleChart::PieChart.new('650x350', "Time Zones", false ) do |pc|

  tweetlocation.each do |loc,count|
    pc.data loc.to_s.delete("&"), (count/timezones*100).round
  end

  puts pc.to_url

end

$ ./followers-location.rb MTimJones
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chl=Seoul|Santiago|Paris|Mountain+Time+(US++Canada)|
Madrid|Central+Time+(US++Canada)|Warsaw|Kolkata|London|Pacific+Time+(US++Canada)|
New+Delhi|Pretoria|Quito|Dublin|Moscow|Istanbul|Taipei|Casablanca|Hawaii|Mumbai|
International+Date+Line+West|Tokyo|Ulaan+Bataar|Vienna|Osaka|Alaska|Chennai|Bern|
Brasilia|Eastern+Time+(US++Canada)|Rome|Perth|La+Paz
&chs=650x350&chtt=Time+Zones&chd=s:KDDyKcKDOcKDKDDDDDKDDKDDDDOKK9DDD&cht=p
$ 

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "rubygems"
require "twitter"
require "google_chart"

screen_name = String.new ARGV[0]

dayhash = Hash.new

# Initialize to avoid a nil error with GoogleCharts (undefined is zero)
dayhash.default = 0

timeline = Twitter.user_timeline(screen_name, :count => 200 )
timeline.each do |t|

  tweetday = t.created_at.to_s[0..2]

  if dayhash.has_key?(tweetday)
    dayhash[tweetday] = dayhash[tweetday] + 1
  else
    dayhash[tweetday] = 1
  end

end

GoogleChart::BarChart.new('300x200', screen_name, :vertical, false) do |bc|
  bc.data "Sunday", [dayhash["Sun"]], '00000f'
  bc.data "Monday", [dayhash["Mon"]], '0000ff'
  bc.data "Tuesday", [dayhash["Tue"]], '00ff00'
  bc.data "Wednesday", [dayhash["Wed"]], '00ffff'
  bc.data "Thursday", [dayhash["Thu"]], 'ff0000'
  bc.data "Friday", [dayhash["Fri"]], 'ff00ff'
  bc.data "Saturday", [dayhash["Sat"]], 'ffff00'
  puts bc.to_url
end

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "rubygems"
require "twitter"
require 'google_chart'

screen_name = String.new ARGV[0]

tweetsource = Hash.new

timeline = Twitter.user_timeline(screen_name, :count => 200 )
timeline.each do |t|

  if (t.source.rindex('blackberry')) then
    src = 'Blackberry'
  elsif (t.source.rindex('snaptu')) then
    src = 'Snaptu'
  elsif (t.source.rindex('tweetmeme')) then
    src = 'Tweetmeme'
  elsif (t.source.rindex('android')) then
    src = 'Android'
  elsif (t.source.rindex('LinkedIn')) then
    src = 'LinkedIn'
  elsif (t.source.rindex('twitterfeed')) then
    src = 'Twitterfeed'
  elsif (t.source.rindex('twitter.com')) then
    src = 'Twitter.com'
  else
    src = t.source
  end

  if tweetsource.has_key?(src)
    tweetsource[src] = tweetsource[src] + 1
  else
    tweetsource[src] = 1
  end

end

GoogleChart::PieChart.new('320x200', "Tweet Source", false) do |pc|

  tweetsource.each do|source,count|
    pc.data source.to_s, count
  end

  puts "\nPie Chart"
  puts pc.to_url

end

$ sudo apt-get install graphviz

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "rubygems"
require "twitter"
require 'google_chart'

screen_name = String.new ARGV[0]

tweetlocation = Hash.new

# Authenticate
Twitter.configure do |config|
  config.consumer_key = '<consumer_key>'
  config.consumer_secret = '<consumer_secret>'
  config.oauth_token = '<oath_token>'
  config.oauth_token_secret = '<oath_token_secret>'
end

my_file = File.new("graph.dot", "w")

my_file.puts "graph followers {"
my_file.puts "  node [ fontname=Arial, fontsize=6, penwidth=4 ];"

# Get the first page of followers
followers = Twitter.follower_ids(screen_name, :cursor=> -1 )

# Iterate the followers returned in the Array (max 10).
followers.ids[0..[5,followers.ids.length].min].each do |fid|

  f = Twitter.user(fid)

  # Only iterate if we can see their followers
  if (f.protected.to_s != "true")

    my_file.puts "  \"" + screen_name + "\" -- \"" + f.screen_name.to_s + "\""

    # Get the first page of their followers
    followers2 = Twitter.follower_ids(f.screen_name, :cursor => -1 )

    # Iterate the followers returned in the Array (max 10).
    followers2.ids[0..[5,followers2.ids.length].min].each do |fid2|

      f2 = Twitter.user(fid2)

      my_file.puts "    \"" + f.screen_name.to_s + "\" -- \"" +
                    f2.screen_name.to_s + "\""

    end

  end

end

my_file.puts "}"

$ ./followers-graph.rb MTimJones
$ circo graph.dot -Tpng -o graph.png

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "rubygems"
require "twitter"
require 'google_chart'

Twitter.configure do |config|
  config.consumer_key = '<consumer_key>'
  config.consumer_secret = '<consumer_secret>'
  config.oauth_token = '<oauth_token>'
  config.oauth_token_secret = '<oauth_token_secret>'
end

screen_name = String.new ARGV[0]

a_user = Twitter.user(screen_name)

if a_user.geo_enabled == true

  long = a_user.status.place.bounding_box.coordinates[0][0][0];
  lat  = a_user.status.place.bounding_box.coordinates[0][0][1];

  my_file = File.new("test.html", "w")

  my_file.puts "<!DOCTYPE html>"
  my_file.puts "<html><head>"
  my_file.puts "<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"initial-scale=1.0, "
  my_file.puts "user-scalable=no\" />"
  my_file.puts "<style type=\"text/css\">"
  my_file.puts "html { height: 100% }"
  my_file.puts "body { height: 100%; margin: 0px; padding: 0px }"
  my_file.puts "#map_canvas { height: 100% }"
  my_file.puts "<style>"
  my_file.puts "<script type=\"text/javascript\""
  my_file.puts "src=\"http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false\">"
  my_file.puts "<script>"
  my_file.puts "<script type=\"text/javascript\">"
  my_file.puts "function initialize() {"
  my_file.puts "var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(" + lat.to_s + ", " + long.to_s + ");"
  my_file.puts "var myOptions = {"
  my_file.puts "zoom: 12,"
  my_file.puts "center: latlng,"
  my_file.puts "mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.HYBRID"
  my_file.puts "};"
  my_file.puts "var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById(\"map_canvas\"),"
  my_file.puts "myOptions);"
  my_file.puts "}"
  my_file.puts "<script>"
  my_file.puts "<head>"
  my_file.puts "<body onload=\"initialize()\">"
  my_file.puts "<div id=\"map_canvas\" style=\"width:100%; height:100%\"<>/div>"
  my_file.puts "<body>"
  my_file.puts "<html>"

else

  puts "no geolocation data available."

end

$ ./where-am-i.rb MTimJones

$ firefox test.html

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "rubygems"
require "twitter"

Twitter.configure do |config|
  config.consumer_key = '<consumer_key>'
  config.consumer_secret = '<consumer_secret>'
  config.oauth_token = '<oauth_token>'
  config.oauth_token_secret = '<oauth_token_secret>'
end

screen_name = String.new ARGV[0]

a_user = Twitter.user(screen_name)

if a_user.geo_enabled == true

  long = a_user.status.place.bounding_box.coordinates[0][0][0]
  lat  = a_user.status.place.bounding_box.coordinates[0][0][1]

  Array tweets = Twitter::Search.new.geocode(lat, long, "5mi").fetch

  tweets.each do |t|

    puts t.from_user + " | " + t.text

  end

end

$ ./tweets-local.rb MTimJones
Breesesummer | @DaltonOls did he answer u
LongmontRadMon | 60 CPM, 0.4872 uSv/h, 0.6368 uSv/h, 2 time(s) over natural radiation
graelston | on every street there is a memory; a time and place we can never be again.
Breesesummer | #I'minafight with @DaltonOls to see who will marry @TheCodySimpson I will 
marry him!!! :/
_JennieJune_ | ok I'm done, goodnight everyone!
Breesesummer | @DaltonOls same
_JennieJune_ | @sylquejr sleep well!
Breesesummer | @DaltonOls ok let's see what he says
LongmontRadMon | 90 CPM, 0.7308 uSv/h, 0.7864 uSv/h, 2 time(s) over natural radiation
Breesesummer | @TheCodySimpson would u marry me or @DaltonOls
natcapsolutions | RT hlovins: The scientific rebuttal to the silly Forbes release this 
morning: Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperatu... http://bit.ly/nRpLJl
$