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translate_twitter is a Sinatra app that will return the results of a twitter search, with translations.

At the moment, it defaults to using the #honduras search term, and only translates into English; it was 
originally written so I could understand the tweets on the #honduras feed, most of which are in Spanish.

Translations are based on the google translation api, with code copped from http://ruby.geraldbauer.ca/google-translation-api.html

Twitter api courtesy of http://github.com/jnunemaker/twitter/tree/master

Thanks to http://github.com/threadhead/sinatra-tailer/tree/master for the basics of a sinatra structure.

Tweets auto-linkified from this snippet: http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/7455

Oh, and Sinatra is pretty cool, too: http://www.sinatrarb.com/

TODO: add a way to specify a search term, and choose your destination language.  And other stuff that would make it cooler.