What is Gwibber?
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
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
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Discontinued
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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Platform details
Linux: GTK
Tags
- social-hub
- Social Network
- identi-ca
- social-applications
- flickr
- digg
- Twitter Client
Gwibber
Summary
Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Gwibber, and it has gotten 92 likes
- Developed by Ryan Paul, Ken VanDine, Dominic Evans, Alexander Sack, Greg Grossmeier, Fabien Tassin
- Open Source and Free product.
- 36 alternatives listed
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Recent user activities on Gwibber
- LinkedAssist added Gwibber as alternative(s) to GP Group Poster4 months ago
- Danilo_Venom edited Gwibber7 months ago
- POX added Gwibber as alternative(s) to Outputter for Twitter9 months ago
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.