Twitter apps for ubuntu

Hey guys back again, hope all of you are doing fine, and thanks for commenting on my previous posts those are really encouraging.
As everyone is talking about Twitter and tweeting a lot I thought its better to talk about few twitter apps. If you are new to twitter read A crash course on Twitter it will help you a lot.
Now lets get down to business; I’ll start with the application I’m using and that is

1 Choqok
This is a KDE based application therefore when you are installing Choqok you have to install all the dependencies too. Though it gives a headache sometimes with the Gnome desktop its is a good application with a lot of facilities. The list of features are provided in the Choqok homepage I’ll list my favorites here,

# Supporting User + His/Her Friends time-lines.
# Supporting @Reply time-lines.
# Support for send and receive direct messages.
# Twitpic.com integration.
# Minimizing to the notification area
# Display of unread tweets
# NotifyOSD integration
if you want to install Choqok the apt line is sudo apt-get install choqok

2 Tweet Deck
Tweet Deck is written using Adobe AIR platform so to use Tweet Deck you have to install Adobe AIR too. What I like the most about tweet deck is the @ reply auto fill its a great help when you are sending a tweet to someone without responding to a reply and also you can integrate facebook with Tweet Deck but it becomes a headache if you are getting too many FB notifications. The whistling sound it makes when a new tweet arrives is a big distraction and “Sinhala Unicode” support sucks in tweet deck. Those are the minus points of twitter but for the plus points it has a cool UI design and the column view looks nice (at first).

3 Spaz
Spaz is written using Adobe AIR platform too so to use that you have to install Adobe AIR. What I like the most about Spaz is it supports “Sinhala Unicode”. Other than that the tabs it uses are confusing because of that I didn’t use it much.

4 Gwibber
Gwibber is made for the Gnome desktop so when we install gwibber no dependency problems occur. This is more like Tweet Deck it supports many accounts like Facebook identi.ca etc. This is the official app which will be used in Ubuntu 10.04 with more improvements such as columns etc. To install Gwibber on your machine the apt line is sudo apt-get install gwibber

5 Web
And finally there is web I don’t think I have to explain how it works and what are the pros and cons but personally don’t like to use the web interface because to update the time line you have to refresh and also by pressing enter you cant send a tweet.

There are so many other applications which you can use to tweet. What I gave above are the ones I have used so far there are MS windows apps too and also remember you can use all the AIR apps in windows by installing the Adobe AIR sdk on windows.
For further information I’ll list some other, more popular twitter apps for your reference.

Seesmic
Twhirl
Twitterfeed
Echofon
Chromed Bird a chrome extension
Twitgether
Gravity (Mobile app)
Tweetie
Twitterfox a Firefox extension

And many more
bye for now happy tweeting

~~ Rusiru Boteju ~~

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