gistfile1.scala

import dispatch._
import Http._
import scala.xml._

var http = new Http()
var tweets = XML.loadString(http("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=tommorris" as_str))

(tweets \\ "status" \ "text").toList.foreach(x => println(x.text))

gistfile2.rb

require "open-uri"
require "nokogiri"

tweets = Nokogiri::XML(open("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=tommorris").readlines.join)
tweets.search("//status/text").each {|i| puts i.text }