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Twitter Clients for Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 10, 2008

“I love Twitter but when I use my Linux laptop (Ubuntu running
Hardy Heron) I don’t have many native options for Twitter clients.
The preferred native client appears to be Twitux. Though the
nascent client is a little primitive for me. Another popular choice
is gTwitter though in my experience it’s only been marginally
better.

“On Mac OS X I prefer Twhirl which allows me to send tweets to
separate accounts from individual windows. So I can send tweets for
my @zenoss and @mrhinkle accounts. Twhirl is an Adobe Air
application which now is available for Linux as an alpha…”

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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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