Tweets from Pidgin
I use Pidgin as my primary chat client. Up until now I was forced to update my Twitter feed through SMS or a Firefox plugin.
A new plugin for Pidgin, microblog-pidgin, allows you to update your Twitter feed within Pidgin. Installation is straightforward.
sudo echo “deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/sugree/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main” >> /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo echo “deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/sugree/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main” >> /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0CF459B8DF37ED8B
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pidgin-microblog
sudo echo “deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/sugree/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main” >> /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0CF459B8DF37ED8B
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pidgin-microblog
Now start Pidgin, enable the plugin and add a Twitgin account.