I just got a second hand HTC Hero as a work phone. One of the things I really like is Peep, which is Twitter that runs in the background and if you get a notification, like a mention or a direct message, an icon pops up in the taskbar to let you know.

Is there anything like this for Maemo 5? I installed the Mauku widget but not only would it not load any tweets, saying i'd exceeded or something, it also wiped all the widgets from my desktop when i uninstalled it. I use Witter as a Twitter app, but do we have, or is anyone working on, something that gives notifications like a background daemon?