Dropped my TwitterFox for twhirl today. Runs flawlessly on Ubuntu 8.10.

Installation was a breeze, here’s the walkthrough.

1. Download Adobe AIR Beta from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air_linux.html

2. Install Adobe AIR

danesh@pandora:~/Desktop$ ls
adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin
danesh@pandora:~/Desktop$ chmod +x adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin
danesh@pandora:~/Desktop$ ./adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin
danesh@pandora:~/Desktop$

3. Download twhirl from http://www.twhirl.org/project/twhirl

4. Double click the twhirl file to start the installation. The installer will install twhirl to /opt/twhirl/ .

That’s it! you now have twhirl installed.

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Now you have one source of all your 2008 presidential election twits.

election.twitter.com is the latest offering from Twitter. It’s a collection of all twits related to the 2008
presidential election presented in one page which keep coming in live.

Depending on your preference you could follow individual candidates or the whole shebang. Many are already hooked onto to it now and you might too.

Source: election.twitter.com

How many times have you had a site fail to load for you but work fine for your friends? I’ve had this happen to me numeros times with youtube,flickr,google and many other sites.

Here’s a cool tool by Twitter developer Alex Payne name appropriately downforeveryoneorjustme. The site’s self-explanatory, punch in the URL in fault and your get your answer.

This is a must have tool for me now. What ya think?

Defensio has been down since yesterday.

My spam aren’t being filtered, I can’t access my Defensio quarantine page and users are unable to post new comments.

Their hosting provider Amazon (EC2) push some software which caused Defensio’s services to go down. The team’s currently working on the issue and updated can be tracked through their blog and twitter.

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