What microblogging clients are available?

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What GUI Twitter clients are there for Ubuntu?

Please include reasons why you like - or highlight features that make a client unique. Please also keep to one client per answer.

This post - as is - is too open ended, and subjective. Please provide guidelines, everyone's opinion of "friendly" is different. Furthermore you may wish to make this simple "What are available Twitter clients for Ubuntu" which would allow users to more objectively answer your question. — Marco Ceppi, Sep 29 '10 at 22:15
@Marco Ceppi: I meant anything that doesn't involve the command line. — Olivier Lalonde, Sep 29 '10 at 23:49
Could you please update your post to reflect that? Also: Converted to CW. — Marco Ceppi, Sep 30 '10 at 01:03

score 12 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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Hotot

I've been using hotot, and I am very satisfied, because:

It's lightweight
It has preview for images
Threaded Conversations
Extensions Support (although there aren't any at the moment, AFAIK)
It just looks good

There are a few quirks, this client is new, but improving rapidly.

Add the 'ppa:hotot-team' ppa(see this for how to add a ppa) then install hotot via the software center.

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answered Sep 29 '10 at 22:43

Decio Lira

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Good. It's faster than gwibber and it installs cleanly in 10.10 (unlike Pino). – Andrea Spadaccini Feb 05 '11 at 10:53
Also it has a chrome app as well. – Nemo Jun 29 '11 at 09:54

score 7 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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Gwibber

Gwibber is the default Microblogging client since 10.04 and offers great features and includes other services (aside from Twitter).

Integrates with Message Indicator
Works post-Authpocalypse
Multiple Column support
Multiple Account support

Gwibber

Installation instructions a la wiki

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answered Oct 01 '10 at 01:21

Marco Ceppi

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I like it, but at this point it does seem to leak memory quite badly. – Nerdfest Oct 02 '10 at 04:44
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It's tremendously slow :/ – Andrea Spadaccini Feb 05 '11 at 10:44

score 7 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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Turpial

Turpial is an excellent and lightweight twitter client. The only thing missing is multi account support.

Turpial Add the 'ppa:effie-jayx/turpial' ppa(see this for how to add a ppa) then install turpial via the software center.

Official Website

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answered Oct 02 '10 at 17:06

score 3 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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Pino

A great client for Linux that runs on the Vala language. There is a PPA to install from.

The PPAs that are needed are here.

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answered Oct 01 '10 at 23:32

gamerchick02

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Can you link up the PPA? It would make this answer much more useful – Jorge Castro Oct 12 '10 at 20:13
Added the download link; the PPAs are under that link. – gamerchick02 Oct 13 '10 at 22:34
Pino is great. Hope it makes into the repos by 11.04 – LFC_fan Oct 14 '10 at 16:05
PPA doesn't work for 10.10. :( – Andrea Spadaccini Feb 05 '11 at 10:49

score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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Tweetdeck

Is an Adobe AIR application that works with Twitter, Facebook, and Buzz. It also has experimental status.net support.

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answered Oct 01 '10 at 23:36

gamerchick02

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no longer an option - tweetdeck for air is no longer supported. – Stefan Armbruster Dec 11 '11 at 21:25
I didn't know that. – gamerchick02 Jan 02 '12 at 15:52

score 1 · Answer 6 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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Yoono

Although I have only used it as firefox addon. It runs as desktop application as well I think.

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answered Oct 01 '10 at 02:56

sagarchalise

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Oct 01 '10 at 23:35

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Choqok is a KDE app that works well. It uses a lot of KDE libraries, so be aware of that.

answered Oct 01 '10 at 23:35

gamerchick02

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered May 11 '13 at 22:33

Pidgin Messenger - In the Software Center

I'm already using it for Google Talk and it supports multiple twitter accounts. It lists the messages in a simple one line format as opposed to fancy formatting which removes from screen real estate.

It sits on the Notification bar and as Tweets come through it pops up (configurable) which is handy as I follow very few "people" so the information is generally of interest. But as thats configurable if you follow 100s then it will just be one big list in your "chat session".

To tweet you just "reply" to the chat user which is the twitter account.

Jonathan Holloway · Answer 9 · 2010-10-12T20:09:50.073

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I use DestroyTwitter

It's Adobe AIR but has a super low memory footprint < 25MB.

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answered Sep 30 '10 at 21:45

Jonathan Holloway

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score 0 · Answer 10 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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Pwytter

The client is developing. Yet what I like is its portable and can be tweaked to your need if you know python. Since It is developed in python with tkinter.

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answered Oct 01 '10 at 02:54

sagarchalise

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score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Oct 01 '10 at 23:33

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The Deskbar applet is another way to post to twitter. Deskbar is in the Ubuntu Repos.

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answered Oct 01 '10 at 23:33

gamerchick02

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score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Oct 01 '10 at 23:34

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gTwitter is a lightweight twitter app that uses GTK+. See the link for an Ubuntu PPA.

answered Oct 01 '10 at 23:34

gamerchick02

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score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Oct 13 '10 at 22:52

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For those fans of XMonad, like myself, you should really take a look at: http://ooxo.org/dtwitzen/

Which is a dzen twitter thingumbob-doodle-whatzit-of-awesomeness if you are into that sort of thing.

answered Oct 13 '10 at 22:52

Robert Massaioli

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What microblogging clients are available?

13 Answers13

Hotot

Gwibber

Turpial

Pino

Tweetdeck

Yoono

Pwytter

Linked

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