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Gwibber brings Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and more to Linux desktops
by Brad Linder Dec 22nd 2008 at 4:00PM
Now that Adobe AIR is officially available for Linux, you can run plenty of popular desktop clients for Twitter in Linux. Twhirl, Alert Thingy, and TweetDeck all run on Adobe AIR. But if you're looking for a native Linux application that can handle Twitter status updates and much more, there's Gwibber. Like Twhirl and other desktop Twitter apps, Gwibber will show you a list of the most recent updates from your contacts and let you respond with short messages. In addition to Twitter, Gwibber supports updates from Digg, Jaiku, Facebook, Flickr, Indenti.ca and the now defunct Pownce.
One thing that's a bit confusing is that Gwibber doesn't provide a clear way to tell which messages are coming from which services.
Gwibber packages are available for Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, and Fedora.
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Ryan Paul said 4:54PM on 12-22-2008
If you want to be able to tell which services individual messages are coming from, you can adjust the message color preference in the account properties dialog.
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Jash Sayani said 5:05PM on 12-22-2008
Even Remember The Task is a great AIR app: http://lifehacker.com/5113035/remember-the-task-puts-remember-the-milk-in-a-stand+alone-window
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Scott said 11:08AM on 12-23-2008
You may also want to check out yonkly. It's the first "create your own" microblog to integrate with Twitter: http://yonkly.com
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