If you've ever wished you could scroll through your Twitter messages and star your favorites for reference as if you were using Google Reader, then TwitteReader might be for you. This web app is basically a Google Reader clone, except instead of managing general RSS feeds, it manages your Twitter account.

When you type in your username and password, you'll see a list of the latest tweets from the people you follow on Twitter. You can scroll through messages using the familiar j/k shortcuts and you can refresh the list by hitting "r." You can star items, and post replies to any message directly from the reader.

You could accomplish something quite similar by taking an RSS feed from Twitter and adding it to Google Reader. But then you wouldn't be able to reply to messages. TwitteReader is licensed under a GNU license, and the developer has provided tools that let you run it yourself from any web server.

[via WebWare]