How to Add Twitter in Pidgin (Windows/Linux) : "microblog-purple is a plugin for Pidgin that works both on Windows and Linux, that supports Twitter, Identica, and Laconica-base server through the conversation windows.
It supports sending @ replies, favorite or retweet with a single click and there is also an character counter telling you how many characters you have left (see the screenshots below).
You will be able to use these commands in the Pidgin Window:
/replies - to get all replies to you
/refresh - get new tweets instantly
/tag, /btag, /untag - automatically tag all your message, good for tagging messages with some hash tag (Example: #election2008)
How to install microblog-purple
For Windows, download this file and skip to 'How to use it' part.
For Linux, you can build it from source:
1. You will need to have libpurple and pidgin headers first. For Ubuntu, these are libpurple-dev and pidgin-dev packages
2. Download microblog-purple source code and untar it somewhere
3. cd microblob-purple-x.x && make && make install
4. The executable will be installed in your pidgin plug-in installation dir, detected from pkg-config command. You can also modify variable and path in global.mak"
It supports sending @ replies, favorite or retweet with a single click and there is also an character counter telling you how many characters you have left (see the screenshots below).
You will be able to use these commands in the Pidgin Window:
/replies - to get all replies to you
/refresh - get new tweets instantly
/tag, /btag, /untag - automatically tag all your message, good for tagging messages with some hash tag (Example: #election2008)
How to install microblog-purple
For Windows, download this file and skip to 'How to use it' part.
For Linux, you can build it from source:
1. You will need to have libpurple and pidgin headers first. For Ubuntu, these are libpurple-dev and pidgin-dev packages
2. Download microblog-purple source code and untar it somewhere
3. cd microblob-purple-x.x && make && make install
4. The executable will be installed in your pidgin plug-in installation dir, detected from pkg-config command. You can also modify variable and path in global.mak"
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