gTwitter: How to Tweet in Penguin (Linux)

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gTwitter: How to Tweet in Penguin (Linux)

by Brad Linder Jan 11th 2008

Twitter is all right if you like visiting a web page and hitting refresh a few thousand times a day to see what all of your friends have been up to. But where the mini-blogging platform really becomes exciting when you use a desktop or cellphone client to keep tracks of tweets as they come in. There are plenty of clients for Windows and Mac, but what's a Linux lover to do?

Install gTwitter, that's what. gTwitter may lack some of the advanced features that you find in Twitter clients like Snitter and Twitterific. But eventually Adobe will release a version of Adobe AIR that runs on Linux and you'll be able to run Snitter to your heart's content. until then, gTwitter gives you all the basics like the ability to send and receive tweets. You can also choose whether to view complete tweets in your window or just a timeline showing you who sent the latest tweets and what time they came in.

If you're running Ubuntu 7.10, all you have to do to install gTwitter is search the Synaptic Package Manager. For some reason gTwitter wasn't automatically added to our start menu, but you can fix that by selecting System/Preferences/Main Menu and adding a shortcut to gTwitter (the application can be found in your usr\bin folder.

Tags: gTwitter, twitter, Ubuntu

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

netsharc said 7:35PM on 1-11-2008

Well, Twitter has a Jabber-bot which you can IM with to send/receive tweets...

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