No twitter for pidgin.
I reffered to using bitlbee for twitter, and that it does exist for thunderbirtd, but is terrible to use.
Get corebird for a gui interface if you have ubuntu 17.04, arch or many other distros. There's no repo for
corebird for Ubuntu trusty or earlier.
I don't particularly like corebird, but it is accessible, just an impractical interface for the stuff I do
most, rt's for example.
it is good for reading tweets though, and fine for original posts.
Others like it more than I do.
I much prefer ttytter and oysttytter, or how ever its spelled...lol. It is the maintained fork of ttytter,
the great perl script for twitter interaction.
YOu can do just about anything, and people write extensions to add more automatic functionality.
Bitlbee's twitter support is native these days, and in many ways works much like ttytter and friends.
I do not see the problem with twitter, but still almost never use the website.
I usually think it has improved each time I try it however.
I don't like the mobile twitter site much, takes far too many clclunky clicks to do anything, and of course
focus never goes back to where you want it.
Maybe with firefox and orca this does occur, but I much prefer the regular interface for the web ap.
There are shortcuts access with the question mark, so look at those, and most stuff you just enter on .
They have changed a lot in the last few months, so maybe some things are worse or different now. I made sure
I set my prefferences to not get fed stuff
like facebook does, al filered. I did have one problem though, could not find where to change my picture and
bio message. Tweeting was good for me though.
I really never like to use social network sites often, so don't keep up with how the sites evolve on a
regular basis.
Sorry I can't help more, but if you do irc at all, try bitlbee.
Actually, they do have some stuff for pidgin and friends.
For ubuntu, go to the bitlbee website, and somewhere on their downloads page there is mention of repos for
ubuntu and debian nightly builds.
These are not typical nightly builds, i.e. they do not update anywhere near nightly, and the builds are
always stable in my experience, but probably once
in a while something is not quite right.
Anyway, get those ppas for your machine if they run debian based distros.
YOu can also just download the packages from those repos of course.
There is something with purple in it, and those are the packages for use with pidgin. I have no idea how they
are, i.e. it never made since fto use some
thing that uses irc to get to other protocols in a program that already can get at those protocols, but if
things work that would be an indirect way to get
twitter functionality in pidgin.
Again, I have no idea about those packages for pidgin, but if you google bitlbee for pidgin or something like
that, you wil probably find out what can be
done.
Other wise, just install bitlbee from the nightly repos and use it fo twitter or go to the
oysttyer
website and install that.
I did spell it correctly this last time.
You can run it well in a gnome terminal, I never do, but have tried it in the past when using extensions that
needed the gui to work.
It is fast, and theonly real issue is having to remember the two character codes after they scroll off the
screen.
Sometimes very large calls do not seem to work, but I think that is more a twitter api thing than a problem
with the client.
I loved the old twitgen plugin for pidgin, but it's long since broken for ever it seems.
I tried every available twitter plogin a couple years ago, and none worked, and have not seen any work done
on any of them the couple times I checked.
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Krishnakant wrote:
Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 06:56:37AM +0530
Hi Henry, I am very keen on Orca with twitter. I tryed 5 months back and I could hardly do any thing on it. Can you or any one update me with the status? I was reading your email and got a bit confused with the options. I wish to know if Pidgin has an option for twitter which really works well? Or is the mobile version of twitter.com accessible? happy hacking. Krishnakant. On Saturday 25 June 2016 01:29 AM, B. Henry wrote:It was pretty much the other way around, i.e. pidgin had more features than the competition. Thunderbird is a vible chat option for many networks, less features, but plenty good enough for most people. I have used it for facebook, gtalk, and a couple others, maybe aim or yahoo/can't remember. Twitter works, but is not really usable if you get more than a few tweets an hour as the display is in a grid and focus does not automatically go to last read or something. There was a good plug-in , well extension I guess, for windows only a few years ago, but it like so many other good extensions broke with t-bird updates. Oh, irc is the other protocol that works well with thunderbird. I don't think aim will work as it uses oscar, but not sure it does not. Features are limited, but for basic chat I find thunderbird fine/usually have a few accounts and one or two irc chans set up just in case I want to use it. For those who use the commandline I highly recomend bitlbee. It is a very actively maintained program and lets you use your favorite irc client, irssi is mine and probably the best over all for most folks, to connect to other chat protocols. It handles oscar services like aim, xmpp and with a add on facebook chat. YOu can also set it up to connect to skype. That last one takes some doing, i.e. I'd not recommend it to a novice who does not have time and or patience following instructions. You have to install skyped and get it set up and then connect to it with bitlbee. I also use bitlbee to tweet. It works similarly to ttytter or oystter, i.e. you use tweet index codes, a letter and a number to say wich tweet you are replying to or rt'ing, e.g. reply x2 Your tweet sounds like a crow with a sore throat dudette would reply to the tweet with x2 as its code. It is a bit less versitile than oysttytter and ttytter, but does most of what you need, and you don'at have to prefix commands with a slash in bitlbee in the default mode. There is a strict mode that makes it imposible to confuse commands with tweeted words as well. a couple things are nicer with bitlbe twitter actually, and as you can automatically log with irssi and most any irc client you can easily read stuff from hours or days ago with out opening a browser. Instant bird is another option, but it does little more than thunderbird, and never got enough community behind it to write the extensions it would need to get in to pidgin's league of power and flexibility. Too bad there as it's basiclly a good program, and very accessible that looks the same on windows and linux which is important to quite a few folks who use both os's regularly.
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