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Scripting News: An open source Twitter client? (Scripting News)

  • iTechGirl · 1 year ago
    I would like one that would have all the features of the site. I hate how I can't read DM's or replies in the Twitter app I use.
  • Foomandoonian · 1 year ago
    There are of course clients like Twitux and gTwitter on Linux. I take it you mean a more fully featured, cross platform client?
  • AndyBeard · 1 year ago
    Open Source can still be commercial, a good example is Wordpress

    Current Twitter and Friendfeed clients don't actually do what I want them to do
  • joshrholloway · 1 year ago
    Several open-source client apps for Twitter already exist.
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=open+sourc...

    Unless you mean "open-source Twitter alternative," in which case I would say we don't need one.
  • quecojones · 1 year ago
  • inaequitas · 1 year ago
    There is also TTYtter at http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/ a command-line client (in Perl).
    I also have a CLI Ruby client that came with source, though I forget where from.

    I assume things like TwitterFox (plugin for Firefox) are also open source, though not sure.
  • krashcoarse · 1 year ago
    It's a great *idea* , I'd love to see it happen. That said, I'm not a coder, but a SysAdmin, gradually having my *nix skills atrophy from disuse, running a MS-heavy network. I could contribute beta-test time, and some user documentation, but not much more than that.
  • peterkirn · 1 year ago
    Well, yeah, with the others here ... you've got several. So, not sure what discussion you want to generate. But I have to admit, I was more aware of the non-open alternatives (like Twhirl), and now I see Spaz is a very nice open-source alternative!

    Now there's just one problem: Twitter itself. The complaints here I think are things that are restricted by the API. And that's assuming the API even works, which right now, it's not. ;)
  • kosso · 1 year ago
    Do you mean an Open Source Twitter server/service? Or a client? As it would be pretty easy to throw together an Adobe AIR client (which is only html and JavaScript under the hood) which 'tweeted' (when Twitter is up) and Open Source that for people to build on AIR's great features (sqlLite for example)

    But replicating the whole service would be tricker - but not impossible. Right? :)
  • macroron · 1 year ago
    http://twitter.com/macroron/statuses/822286302

    Twitter Clients for Linux Users - Linux and Open Source Blog. http://snurl.com/2b7gh Twitterholics http://snurl.com/2b7gp
  • Morton Erlang · 1 year ago
    How about an open source Twitter server?
    http://yarivsblog.com/articles/2008/05/28/annou...
  • Matt Ranlett · 1 year ago
    tell someone to buy Twitter and properly fund the development and the back end servers.

    As for the alignment to commercial interests - that's only natural in a world where Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft are scooping up all the social networking providers out there like YouTube, Facebook, etc.
  • Andrew · 1 year ago
    Witty (WIndows-based, .NET) is open source and on Google Code.
  • Abi · 1 year ago
    Do you mean a twitter client (like twhirl or twiiferic) or a twitter clone that is open source?

    I would love to build a open source twitter clone. But then again it's about the people and API apps, etc and I can't think of a way to duplicate these. Oh... you should also check out http://bitlog.org/ which is a twitter clone by John Resig (which he hopes to one day open source). Anyway, I'm all for writing a Twitter clone that is meant to serve users and users only.
  • danlyke · 1 year ago
    I too am confused. I send twitters using the twitter command line app that comes with the Perl Net::Twitter module, and receive them in an RSS folder in Claws mail. Both are open source.

    On the server side, twitter seems to me to be kind of a deformed IRC. Why not just use all the cool tools available for that?