I've open sourced the code here<p><a href="http://github.com/godavemon/TwitTornado" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/godavemon/TwitTornado</a><p>A bit more about TwitTornado<p><a href="http://twittornado.com/about" rel="nofollow">http://twittornado.com/about</a><p>It was a fun and short project. I highly recommend Tornado to anyone needing a push framework.
"There is no need to refresh. Your stream is automatically updated with the other non-TwitTornado tweets in 30 second intervals."<p>30 seconds interval? So, it is "near-realtime". Anyway, you have a really nice product up there.
I'd love to see this built own. A live-updating, clean, and light weight web based twitter client doesn't exist. I'd subscribe for a few bucks a month to use it.