[orca-list] twitter from Linux

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

Once again time is slipping in to and out of the future around us, e.g. just for a few minutes it appears 
that ubuntu 17.04 was out...lol.
Sorry if I got anyones hopes up.
I of course meant to type 16.04.
I tried install the 16.04 package on trusty, but could never meet dependencies. 
I will try making from generic source code one of these daze soon. 
Manjaro and arch users can get corebird, several packages were available. 
Down to three or four now.  
I use corebired-git, well have it installed, but only use it once or month at most. oysttyer when I remember 
to, and ttytter that it was derived from when 
I don't.
oysttyer is better it seems, and I think has some good new feature or two that I can not remember. 
Make sure you get the term readline ttytter package if it is not a hard dependency for your distro. 
Among other things it displays how many chars you have used.
The one thing that works poorly lis opening urls, i.e. they open perfectly , but if you run in a console and 
need a textbased browser it is hard top tell 
whether you will be interacting with the twitter client or the webbrowser when yuou type something, and half 
the time I accidentaly close oysttyer when all 
I want to do is close elinks, lynx or whatever. 
You can use firefox when run in a gnome or other terminal emulator, and as I recall that works fine, but 
better give that a test drive to make sure, maybe 
can run in a console with exported display , or did that not work when I tried?
There is also a twitter script for irssi, but I have never gotten it to work.
It requires quite a narly set of cpan perl stuff that always fails somehow. I think I did get it all to build 
right finally, but never connected to 
twitter, and am not sure if it works for anyone these days.
 
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  B. Henry wrote:
Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 11:30:50PM -0500

> 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.