Twitter clients for Linux

Know someone who’s never heard of twitter? I don’t.
There are loads of twitter desktop clients out there for Windows. I’m a Linux person so twittering from my command line is just one of the many was I twitter.
Linux and OpenSource Blog has published a list for desktop clients for Linux. Might come in handy for you.
- ktwitter - A simple Twitter script for KDE.
- twitter.el - Twitter from Emacs!
- twit.el - Another Emacs client.
- Vim Twitter - Twitter from Vim!
- gTwitter - a Twitter client for Linux.
- GtkTwitter - a Twitter client for Linux and Windows which using GTK.
- Twitbar - a Twitter client for Gnome users to post from the Deskbar
- Twit and Wayd - Two addons for Gnome Deskbar that allow posting updates to Twitter
- BLT - twitter meets the Bourne shell, with a hint of biff.
- Twitux - a Twitter client for the Gnome desktop. Features includes: gui-notifications, url tinyzer, and more..
- ZenTwitter - bash script which uses zenity and curl (could be launched from custom desktop/menu/panel icons)
- mitter - A very simple Python and pygtk client.
- prism-twitter - prism based





















Andy | May 26th, 2008 at 9:35 pm #
Hi,
There’s an alpha version of Adobe AIR available for Linux, so I’ve been using twhirl on Linux
There are a couple of notable twitter clients based on AIR too, like Spaz..
Just thought it’s nice to know =)
Twitter clients for Linux | May 26th, 2008 at 11:01 pm #
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Danny | May 26th, 2008 at 11:34 pm #
Thanks for the update Andy. I have not tried AIR, guess it’s time now.