twfs is "Twitter Filesystem". You can operate Twitter through file system operations on the Twitter File System. The Twitter File System is Linux application based on FUSE(Filesystem in USErspace).
Refer to the Twitter Filesystem.
To compile the twfs, you may install clang, fuse and openssl development libraries. The following installation descriptions are assumed under Ubuntu.
Execute the following command on your termianl.
$ sudo apt-get install clang
Execute the following command on your termianl.
$ sudo apt-get install libfuse-dev
Execute the following command on your termianl.
$ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
Download the sources and then you can just make!
$ make