To create a new Tweetable user:

@user = Tweetable::User.create(:screen_name => ‘flippyhead’) To then grab recent messages, friend counts, and other profile data:

@user.update_all # will only grab messages since the last known message Now you have access to stuff like:

@user.friend_ids # [34102, 23423, 67567, etc…] @user.friend_ids.size # 102 @user.profile_image_url # twitter.com/… @user.messages.size # 202 Links in messages can be extracted and expanded:

@message = @user.messages.first @message.parse_links

@link = @message.links.first # Tweetable::Link @link.url # tinyurl.com/yfuhltt @link.long_url # pathable.com And are connected to other users who mention them: @message.links.size # 2 @link.count # 8 (uses discovered so far) @link.users # [<Tweetable::User:0x1 @_attributes={}>, …] Performing a keyword search is just as easy:

# @search =