Twitter app?

semperfiguy · 2009-10-20 19:20:20

Does anyone have a favorite app they use for twitter? I have been trying to test out a few, but none of them seem to work for me.

I have tried qwit and qtwitter -- both crash.
I have tried gtktwitter which worked once, but looked terrible. Now it freezes.
I have been trying to use twitux but it never connects. It simply asks me for my username and password over and over again.

Does anyone have a client to recommend?

I'm using destroytwitter right now through adobe-air. Don't like the fact that there is a big black border around the application. Any way to control this?

Last edited by semperfiguy (2009-10-20 19:26:39)

jasonwryan · 2009-10-20 19:37:39

I have tried most of them (including the Air apps) and the one that works best for me is TTYtter - it has an amazing range of functionality and is lightweight and very much in line with the Arch Way.

There is a thread here that covers this topic: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=74760

Knives · 2009-10-20 21:52:28

Try Mitter.

fukawi2 · 2009-10-20 22:01:37

I use Twittux without any problems... Works fairly well, but occasionally freezes while "Reloading Timeline..."

umpalumpa1985 · 2009-10-21 03:18:50

Don't mean to hijack a thread, just wanted to say Semper Fi! to a fellow jarhead.

syne · 2010-04-07 11:50:15

semperfiguy wrote:

I'm using destroytwitter right now through adobe-air. Don't like the fact that there is a big black border around the application. Any way to control this?

Try checking the 'no shadow' in preferences. That did it for me.
Still not quite loving destroytwitter, gonna try Buzzbird and Tweetdeck next, if they don't work for me, it's back to Qwit.

EDIT: Tweetdeck totally screwed me over, tried Mixero (just search online) and i'm kinda loving it now. Buzzbird gave me the XPCOM error and I gave up on it.

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renuvio · 2010-04-07 12:01:49

I tried with Adobe Air apps, like Destroy Twitter, but were very slow in my machine.

Mitter works well, may look a little limited in functions but even let you shorten urls or open the links in the browser of choice.

If your more interested about the text itself TTYtter is great (as jasonwryan mention). TTYtter works for Identi.ca accounts too. Actually that's my choice for twitter.

Last edited by renuvio (2010-04-07 13:51:51)

Berticus · 2010-04-07 13:03:11

I have a few of ways. There's TTYtter, tircd/irssi (or some irc client), and I have my own tweet function:

function tweet
{
    USERNAME="myuser"
    PASSWORD="mypass"

    if [ -z "$1" ]
    then
        echo "No status update entered. Showing last twenty updates:"
        curl --basic --silent --user $USERNAME:$PASSWORD --get http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml | sed --quiet --expression='s/<name>\(.*\)<\/name>/\1/p' --expression='s/<text>\(.*\)<\/text>/\1/p'
        exit
    elif [ $(($(echo "$1" | wc -m)-1)) -gt 140 ]
    then
        echo "Tweet too long ($(($(echo "$1" | wc -m)-1)))"
        exit
    else
        curl -s -u $USERNAME:$PASSWORD http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml -d status="$1" > /dev/null
        echo Status updated.
    fi
}

Knives · 2010-04-08 13:34:13

For me the best GTK baset Twitter client is turpial-git from AUR.

Hund · 2010-04-08 16:27:37

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 15#p739615

ReaphSharc · 2010-07-01 10:17:21

I just tried BuzzBird, but it gets stuck authenticating my account... even with the correct credentials.

-edit-
Never mind, found the problem: http://getbuzzbird.com/bb/2010/05/xauth … to-master/

Me thinks 0.7 isn't handling this Twitter change very well....

Last edited by ReaphSharc (2010-07-01 13:58:55)

jzlau · 2010-09-06 01:42:19

did everyone hear about twitter using OAuth for all its applications? i read it in an article (http://ow.ly/2zSkI ) and its supposed to allow you to authenticate your apps so u never have to use a login again

Last edited by jzlau (2010-09-06 01:43:46)

jasonwryan · 2010-09-06 01:49:01

jzlau - welcome to the boards. Please don't post obfuscated/shortened links in threads: it could look like you are spamming...

Full link: http://www.breakmediagroup.com/social-m … lications/

tlvince · 2010-09-06 02:26:35

cltwitter is a nice command line one that's been using OAuth from the start.

fukawi2 · 2010-09-06 04:47:40

I've recently moved to Pino, but OAuth has broken it

Hund · 2010-09-06 13:09:55

fukawi2 wrote:

I've recently moved to Pino, but OAuth has broken it

Pino 0.3 will use the new auth. But I have no idea when he will release it.

kittykatt · 2010-09-07 00:22:48

I have a set of three bash scripts that together use OAuth to do various things with twitter via console. I'd gladly tarball them up and host them if somone wanted them. Might even put an AUR package up.

sand_man · 2010-09-07 02:50:59

I only use micro bloggers on my android device. It just doesn't feel the same when reading/writing identi.ca/twitter messages on a desktop.
Seesmic for twitter and Mustard for identi.ca
I don't use twitter much though. I have no friends.
identi.ca is cool if you can get passed all the ubuntu spam

fukawi2 · 2010-09-07 04:45:01

sand_man wrote:

identi.ca is cool if you can get passed all the ubuntu spam

Agreed; shame there's so many people who don't understand Linux != Ubuntu

kittykatt · 2010-09-08 00:04:09

Uploaded my twitbash scripts to the AUR. Uses OAuth and custom Twitter API application names.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40616

papul1993 · 2010-09-11 07:59:08

try http://www.seesmic.com/app

sunilmnambiar · 2010-09-23 02:46:29

I have been using TweetTwain, a nice app developed in Java. Get it from http://tweettwain.com

mikesd · 2010-09-23 06:29:18

I just uploaded Python Twitter Tools to the AUR. It has a simple CLI client that works well for me.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41029

k79 · 2010-09-24 07:43:35

fukawi2 wrote:

I've recently moved to Pino, but OAuth has broken it

Try this.

xaber · 2010-09-24 12:09:31

There is a great social network extension for Firefox: that's Yoono. It's very good!

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