Labnotes ยป Distributed Twitter Client in 20 lines of code
http://blog.labnotes.org/2008/05/05/distributed-twitter-client-in-20-lines-of-code
"Now just wait for your friends to status away using their IM client."
Using Google Talk as a distributed Twitter client [python] [xmpp]
http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5474