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Gwibber

Gwibber is an open source microblogging client for GNOME developed with Python and GTK. Created by Ryan Paul, Ken VanDine, Dominic Evans, Alexander Sack, Greg Grossmeier, Fabien Tassin

Free Open Source
Linux
Discontinued

Gwibber is an open source microblogging client for GNOME developed with Python and GTK.
It brings the most popular social networking web services to your desktop and gives you the ability to control how you communicate.

It supports Twitter, Identi.ca, StatusNet, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, FriendFeed, and Qaiku.

Features

Supports many different social networks
Provides a combined stream of all your messages
Automatically shortens URLs when they are pasted
Built-in search tool and support for saved searches
Optional support for spell-checking as you type
HTML themes let you customize Gwibber's look and feel
Multicolumn user interface for viewing multiple streams More Info »

Links to official Gwibber sites

Official Website Twitter

Features

Built-in URL shortening Integrated Search Add a feature

Category

Social & Communications

Tags

Discontinued built-in-url-shortening digg facebook flickr identi.ca integrated-search microblogging-client social-hub twitter-client

Gwibber was added by HenrikHedman in Apr 2009 and the latest update was made in Aug 2017. The list of alternatives was updated Mar 2017 There is a history of all activites on Gwibber in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Gwibber or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

Gwibber in Ubuntu 10.04

Gwibber is discontinued. Find alternatives in the list below or click here for more info

The project seems to be no longer developed. Last verson, 3.6.0, released in October 2012, can be still downloaded from Launchpad.'s not in Ubuntu 14.04

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Gwibber Comments

Comment by UncleNinja

about Gwibber · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

It's amazing how quickly it was patched to work with oAuth.

@UncleNinja
I fixed them. What's wrong with YOU?

Just add a launcher to the top panel that runs "killall gwibber-service" and click that if it doesn't come up.

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