Twitgin for Twitter Users

I’ve been trying out various microblogging services in the past how many years. I was mainly using twitter a lot but I shifted to plurk some time last year. Considering the number of contacts I still have on twitter, I decided to give it another try but this time, I wanted to follow tweets without having to log in to the website. I remember not being able to follow tweets on IM for the longest time and that was a major annoyance for me. Apparently I could follow them again, this time using Twitgin.

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.