DDTwitter
=========

Abstract
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DDTwitter is a tool for twitter.  It has three faces - "background" and
"foreground".

As "background" face, it fetches tweets, direct messages, and other information
that you are interested from the Twitter, then it stores fetched data into
a database which is powered by sqlite.

As "foreground" face, it acts as an abstract interface to read/write from/to
the database for Twitter.

Additionally, a Vim plugin is bundled.  The plugin provides text-based,
comprehensive and useful Twitter client inside Vim.


Requirements
------------

Ruby 1.8.7 or later			<http://www.ruby-lang.org/>
twitter (Ruby gem) 0.6.14 or later	<http://twitter.rubyforge.org/>
sqlite 3.4.0 or later			<http://www.sqlite.org/>

Assumption: Works only on *nix-like environments


Installation
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Copy bin/ddtwitter in a package to anywhere you want.


Configuration
-------------

Whenever executing ddtwitter, the directory $HOME/.ddtwitter is created.
Files for DDTwitter is put into the directory

$HOME/.ddtwitter/config
	Some configurations

$HOME/.ddtwitter/database
	Twitter database file.


License
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The license of DDTwitter is known as MIT license, and the details of the
license are as follows:

	Copyright (C) 2009 kana <http://whileimautomaton.net/>

	Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
	a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
	"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
	without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
	distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
	permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
	the following conditions:

	The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
	in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

	THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
	OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
	MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
	IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
	CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
	TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
	SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.


FAQ
---

Q. Why do you make yet another Twitter client?

A. Because there is no client which satisfies me.


Q. Really?

A. Really.




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