If you know how to Ruby you can torture Twitter's servers, too, now.

drill.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
require 'hpricot'

def get(url)
  uri = URI.parse(url)
  http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
  http.use_ssl = true
  http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
  
  request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)

  response = http.request(request)
  
  if response.code != "200"
    puts "Ouch, got response status #{response.code}, aborting"
    exit
  end

  return response
end

def drill(start)
  s = get(start)
  d = Hpricot(s.body)
  
  links = d.search("//p[@class='js-tweet-text tweet-text']/a")
  
  links = links.map {|l| l.attributes['data-expanded-url']}
  links = links.reject {|l| l.empty?}.uniq
  links = links.select {|l| l =~ /https:\/\/twitter.com\/[^\/]+\/status\/[0-9]+/}
  
  if links.empty?
    return nil
  else
    return links[0]
  end
end

counter = 0
start = ARGV[0]
until start.empty?
  counter += 1
  puts "##{counter} #{start}"
  start = drill(start)
end