Twitter for Thunderbird or Linux in general

[Martin S]

Patrick Lists:
> On 08/20/2013 09:42 AM, Martin S wrote:
>> After the "recent" changes to Twitter API "half" of the Linux twitter
>> clients died horribly (can't log in) as they don't seem to support the
>> 1.1 API.
>> I wouldn't normally bother but our organisation has been "strongly
>> encouraged" to monitor twitter so we can act on stuff posted there.
>> Any suggestions of some piece of software for either Thunderbird or
>> Linux in general?
> 
> Thunderbird 17 has built-in support for Twitter in the Chat section.
> Just add a new account and select Twitter.

Why, so it does! Wasn't aware of that.
Its fugly, but might do the trick. I'll check out the other options
mentioned as well.

Thanks.

/M.