Its microblogging (Twitter) interfaced with xmpp. Useful for storming sessions. Please refer the source code for more details. ToDo - Tweepy documentation is very skimpy..should go through it thoroughly and see what methods are defined to get replies, check timeline etc..then interface it with xmpp - Identica code needs heavy refactoring...! Similar Projects - https://github.com/hj91/Using-XMPP-to-post-content-on-blog-sms-facebook/blob/master/xmpp_to_wordpress.py