Six Twitter Clients for the Linux Desktop and One for the Road | Linux Today

Six Twitter Clients for the Linux Desktop and One for the Road

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 1, 2008

“Twitter is a popular social networking utility that’s gaining
popularity as a micro-blogging tool. Registered users can post
messages–also called Tweets–via the Web interface, but many
prefer to use desktop applications that offer additional
functionality and move Tweeting out of the browser entirely.

“Qt Twitter Linux is a barebones KDE client developed with Qt
and C++. Since it was built using Twitter’s APIs, messages sent via
this tool appear instantaneously in Twitter’s timeline as if they
were sent directly from the Web-based interface (all Tweets show
what app the sender uses by default)…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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