I have put some glue between xmpp4r and twitter, et voila, a Jabber component mapping microblogging to a Jabber Multi-User-Chat. Working right now: friends joining as participants friends timeline posting updates sending and receiving direct/private messages Missing: follow/unfollow (I'd like...

I could not really find an easy example how to get started with Jabber components (using xmpp4r), so this I will cover the absolute basics here. You will need a Jabber server to connect your component to. I suggest to...