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 ## Rainbow Stream
-This is a Twitter timeline on the terminal, base on Python Twitter Tool
+Terminal-based Twitter Client with Streaming API support. 
+Realtime tweetstream, compose, search ... and much more fun directly from terminal.
+Only supports Python 2.7 or later.
+
+This package build on the top of [Python Twitter Tool](http://mike.verdone.ca/twitter/) and [Twitter Streaming API](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/streaming) and inspired by [EarthQuake](https://github.com/jugyo/earthquake)
+
+## Screenshot
+![v0.0.1](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DTVD/rainbowstream/master/screenshot/RainbowStreamvSS.png)
 
 ## Install
-*The easy way:*
+You will need Python 2.7+ and pip to install
+
+**The recommened way:**
 * Clone this repo
+* Create virtualenv (optional but recommended)
 * Install dependencies
 * Install the package itself
 
 ```bash
-git clone https://github.com/DTVD/rainbowstream.git
+git clone git@github.com:DTVD/rainbowstream.git
 cd rainbowstream
-pip install -r requirements.txt
+virtualenv venv # Assume that you have virtualenv installed by "pip install virtualenv"
+source venv/bin/activate
 pip install -e .
 ```
-*The quick way:*
+**The quick way:**
 * Install everything over the air
 
 ```bash
-pip install -r https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DTVD/rainbowstream/master/requirements.txt
-pip install git+https://github.com/DTVD/rainbowstream.git
+sudo pip install git+https://github.com/DTVD/rainbowstream.git
 ```
-**Note the I only support Python version 2.7+**
 
 ## Usage
-Let's see the rainbow
+#### The stream
+Just type
 ```bash
-rainbowstream
+rainbow
 ```
+and see your stream.
 
-## Screenshot
+In the first time you will be asked for authorization of Rainbow Stream app at Twitter.
+Just click the "Authorize access" button and paste PIN number to the terminal, the rainbow will start.
+
+#### The interactive mode
+While the rainbow stream is continued, you are also ready to tweet, search, reply, retweet... directly from console.
+Simply hit Enter key and type "h" to view the help
+
+Input is in interactive mode. It means that you can use arrow key to move up and down history, tab-autocomplete or 2 tab to view available suggestion
+
+Here is full list of supported command
+
+* ```home```will show your timeline. ```home 10``` will print exactly 10 tweet.
+
+* ```view @mdo```will show @mdo 's timeline. ```view @dmo 9``` will print exactly 9 tweet.
+
+* ```t the rainbow is god's promise to noah```will tweet exactly *'the rainbow is god's promise to noah'*
+
+* ```rt 12```will retweet the tweet with *[id=12]*. You can see id of each tweet beside the time.
+
+* ```rep 12 Really```will reply *'Really'* to the tweet with *[id=12]*.
+
+* ```del 12```will delete thw tweet with *[id=12]*.
+
+* ```s #noah```will search the word *'noah'*. Result will come back with highlight.
+
+* ```fr```will list all friend (You are following people).
+
+* ```fl```will list all follower.
+
+* ```h```will show the help.
+
+* ```c```will clear the screen.
+
+* ```q```will quit.
+
+For example see the screenshot above.
 
+## Bug Report
+Please [create an issue](https://github.com/DTVD/rainbowstream/issues/new) 
+or contact me at [@dtvd88](https://twitter.com/dtvd88)
 
 ## License
-Rainbow Stream are released under an MIT License.
+Rainbow Stream are released under an MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for details