Comments on: My ideal Twitter client

By: ShawnM

ShawnM — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:25:36 +0000

I actually gave up on doing 64-bit on desktop (still on my servers) when I realized that it wasn’t really coming into play on performance unless I was doing something with a crapload of threads, and for me desktops are basically tools to open a bunch of workspaces with Xterms and Firefox.

Anywho, when I was doing 64-bit, I had good luck getting pretty much anything working getting jiggy wif der 32-bit chroot.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=24575
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1&chap=2

By: bunnyhero

bunnyhero — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:24:04 +0000

i’m surprised that i still haven’t seen any twitter clients with keyword exclusion. i’m also kind of disappointed by how few open source twitter clients are out there (spaz is the only one i’m familiar with).

By: hypatia

hypatia — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:45:35 +0000

Blake:

I’ve been using screen + irssi + bitlbee -> IM for a couple of years now. It’s really incredibly great. I’d love to be able to use twitter through the same screen as I did when the twitter jabber still worked… that’s the core functionality I want to bring back :)

By: hypatia

hypatia — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:44:17 +0000

Hey Chris,

I haven’t tried it…. Sadly, Air doesnt’ work on 64-bit linux, and Spaz doesn’t seem to have a couple of dealbreaker features for me – multi-account support, search / track functionality, and groups. I’ll forgive them for missing keyvord blocking, as I’m not sure if any clients support that yet :)

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:19:50 +0000

Have you tried Spaz? It was written by an old college buddy of mine.

By: Blake Winton

Blake Winton — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:32:42 +0000

I haven’t even heard of bitlbee before, but looking at it, it seems kind of neat. (I did the opposite with a Jabber bot back in the day, connecting IRC to IM.)

So, basically you’ll be bundling a (possibly-modified) version of Mike’s stuff with a small IRC server, and some default config to hook everything together? Sounds pretty cool. Have you thought about whose IRC server you should use? (I hear good things about the Twisted stuff, but then you’re in Twisted-land, which might make the integration with the Twitter stuff “non-trivial”.)

By: hypatia

hypatia — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:11:20 +0000

Well, I was originally thinking of having it run an irc server that one can just connect to on localhost; the irc-bot in Mike’s Twitter Tools connects to an arbitrary existing server though. I’ll be playing around with it more Wednesday. Have you used bitlbee at all? That’s kinda what I’m thinking of, where you have a control channel and interact with a bot which manages things for you.

By: Blake Winton

Blake Winton — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:06:39 +0000

That would be freaking awesome! I doubt you need my help, but if there’s any way I could give you a hand with this, I’ld be more than happy to. Heck, if nothing else, I suppose more testers would always be good, and I like to think I’m fairly good at that part of software development.

Would you do some sort of password management, or would you expect everyone to run it for themselves?