Twitter for Thunderbird or Linux in general

[Martin S]

Patrick Lists:
> On 08/20/2013 05:58 PM, Martin S wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Forgot, there's also hotot (hotot-gtk and hotot-qt) which works with the
> 1.1 API. Besides HootSuite mentioned by Steven there is also TweetDeck
> (the app) but it only runs on Win/Mac. If you use Chrome then you can
> install the TweetDeck extension which (afaik) also works on Linux.
> Chrome also has another twitter extension. And there are several twitter
> extensions for Firefox which also works on Linux.

Aye, I noticed there are some for Firefox, but for me it's not logical
to have it in the browser. Which also excludes Chrome. And I prefer KDE
I'm picky like that =)

/M.