Monitor Twitter with Ruby and Growl

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English - November 14, 2009 15:21 - 70.4 MB Video
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As I run the final stretch to see if I can get a RubyConf ticket, I decided to create a little tool to help me out. If you visit http://search.twitter.com, you will see that they have a search page that auto updates when new tweets have been posted with certain keywords. I can't watch the site all day, so I decided to write a little tool that will flash the messages on my screen using Growl. Here's how I did it.
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