So what can I do? Searching for another Twitter client, of course. I’d love a better way of getting updated rather than going to my browser and checking it every so often.

mitter - a simple twitter client

Thankfully BrightHubLinux posted on Twitter about Mitter. It looked like an interesting application which could be used regardless of the desktop environment you’re using. But there’s no deb for Mitter. You’d have to download it from its Git repository or from the Google Project site for Mitter. I installed python-simplejson on Ubuntu 9.04 as well, because of the comments I saw is that it was needed for Mitter. After unpacking Mitter on the directory of my choice, I ran it from the command line with the ./mitter command.

The nice things about Mitter:

• The user interface is simple enough. You’ve got a box with status getting updated from time to time. And you have space to update your status. On that space where you could update your status, you type the @ symbol and start typing the name of your friend, it can autocomplete it for you. It’s convenient that way.
• You could shorten the URLs without having to open your browser for a service like bit.ly etc anymore. If you choose the “shorten URL” option when you highlight your link on the status update space, it will generate a short URL for you. Easy, right?
• You could see an indicator on your status bar. Because the icon for Mitter will get a star if there are updates.

For those who like the new Re-Tweet option, too bad you can’t really have it here. Same thing goes for the reply to a tweet link from the web user interface. But you could always just go for the @ symbol replies and copying the entire tweet for re-tweeting anyway.

I’d love to see what else will happen with those project. So far it’s been easy to use and not clunky.

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What do you need?

• python-twitter (source:http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/)
• SimpleJSON (source: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/simplejson)
• Tkinter or python-tk

Twitter

Akkana Peck’s guide teaches you what to write, line by line. Hers might be a simple Twitter client but it’s functional. Her guide teaches you what packages are needed, what the commands are for, and which variables are customizable. The guide also notes which lines of code must not be indented or else it will be part of the loop that might end up going on more than is expected.

If you don’t want to use clients that require Adobe Air, her Python scripts are quite interesting and useful.  I really didn’t want to go through the hassle of having a graphical client like Gwibber because I find it too heavy to load on my netbook.  The Python scripts seem logical for me to use because I am not always on Twitter and I mainly like to follow people instead of posting tweets myself.  All of them are actually available on her site and because those scripts are all available for tweaking, you might end up learning a lot about Twitter and improving the client scripts to suit your needs. (Admit it, you’re probably hooked on to Twitter too! And so you must have a personalized Twitter client.)

Akkana Peck also happens to have written a guide to GIMP.  It’s interesting because she had beginners as well as professionals in mind.  Might be great to follow her on Twitter as well as check out her other written works.

Good luck with Python programming your client. I could imagine that the guide she wrote could be the start of your own Python programming exercises, especially for those who want to learn on their own time.

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• Tweetdeck
  
  Interestingly enough this seems to have a lot of nifty features. One of them is creating groups of people to follow, manage conversations with @ replies and direct messages, manage multiple Twitter accounts, view photo thumbnails from Tweetdeck, avoiding Twitter spam via the Spam button.
• Twhirl
  
  This runs on Adobe Air. You could find it easier to use this to connect to your Twitter, laconi.ca, Friendfeed and Seesmic accounts plus cross-post your updates via ping.fm to boot. This also allows searching of tweets via Twitter Search and Tweet Scan.
• Choqok
  
  Choqok is the KDE microblogging client and it currently supports laconi.ca and twitter. It supports multiple accounts too. One nice thing for those who prefer keyboard shortcuts to launch this: Ctrl + Meta + T does the trick.

I’m more of a GNOME user so I might have not been posting much KDE apps here but I am glad that this blog entry pointed out one KDE app for Twitter. I wouldn’t know about it if not for this. It seems that Choqok is still relatively new so it looks like interesting to follow if you’re a KDE user.

May you find a good Twitter client for you to use!

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What’s Twitgin?

Microblog-purple/Twitgin is a Pidgin plugin which allows you to post your tweets on twitter without having to log on the website. You just need to have Pidgin up and running and the plugin activated so that you could do that. You could also get updates on Pidgin. This basically works when you install a library for microblogging. I learned about the plugin from ainotenshi’s blog entry about turning Pidgin into an awesome microblogging client. I followed the instructions on how to install microblog-purple on another blog entry, though, because I am on Ubuntu. However, the main microblog-purple page different packages, depending on whether you’re using Adium, Pidgin or Pidgin on Windows.

For now, this works well for me. I might blog about Gwibber another day but for now, this would be my tool for following tweets so I don’t feel too overwhelmed by too many applications on my desktop.

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According to Andy Price’s blog post:

Sally the software maintainer wants to let her development team keep track of repository commits while they’re away from their computers. She installs python-twyt, sets up a Twitter account for her project and tells twyt the username and password for that account. She then writes a shell script which parses from the email details such as the short commit log and the link to the commit diff in the repository’s web interface and calls:

twyt tweet “$devname $shortlog $link”

Sally also sets up a procmail rule to pipe emails from her project’s commits list into her script.

So yeah, if you are in a development team and you’d also like to update via Twitter, you just need to download this library which you could use.

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