Desktop client for Twitter and Identi.ca
Gwibber is an open source microblogging client for GNOME developed with Python and GTK. It supports Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, Facebook, and Digg.
I’ve been using Ping.FM to update my Twitter and Identi.ca accounts for the last 2 weeks. That is all good and great but I needed a way to read the replies and feeds from those 2 accounts as well! My “solution” was to keep 3 tabs open in my browser and periodically refresh those pages to see if there was anything new. In comes Gwibber. It wasn’t until last night that I found out we had it packaged in our repositories (the WebKit branch) so today I decided to give it a go.
Gwibber with my Twitter (green) and Identi.ca (blue) accounts.
So far it is updating me with the chatter from everyone I follow, which is exactly what I wanted. I may post again about this tool in the coming days to follow up.
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July 28th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Nice. I was looking for an Identi.ca client. Now if there is something that allows posting from Emacs, it would be perfect.
July 30th, 2008 at 9:09 am
It seems to be quite awesome.
Maybe not so awesome as Ebassi’s “Tweet”, but looks very cool.
I’m gonna try this right now.
August 1st, 2008 at 1:51 pm
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August 2nd, 2008 at 5:24 am
What repositories? Ubuntu’s? I just get…
Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “gwibber”
August 2nd, 2008 at 6:42 am
I don’t run Ubuntu, so I used the one available for my distro… but I’m sure someone has a deb for gwibber somewhere.
August 2nd, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Oh, I thought you did. So based on that screenshot, are you using Foresight or Arch? Or both?
August 2nd, 2008 at 12:24 pm
@Mackenzie: Foresight Linux… it has a rolling release cycle so we usually always have latest apps packaged
August 12th, 2008 at 12:47 am
People, install bzr from your repos.
$ bzr branch lp:gwibber
on ubuntu all you have to install is python-simplejson and you can run it (everything else is already installed – see the read me files in the gwibber folder downlaoded by the above bzr command)
March 11th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Howdy, quick question. Is there an equivalent for Window Desktop?
March 11th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Though it is written in python, I’m not sure if all the dependencies are available for Windows…