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

danlyke — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:44:42 -0000

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?

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

Abi — Fri, 30 May 2008 09:17:49 -0000

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.

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

Andrew — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:40:32 -0000

Witty (WIndows-based, .NET) is open source and on Google Code.

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

Morton Erlang — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:25:08 -0000

How about an open source Twitter server?
http://yarivsblog.com/artic...

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macroron — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:09:44 -0000

http://twitter.com/macroron...

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

kosso — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:42:34 -0000

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? :)

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

Peter Kirn — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:58:21 -0000

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. ;)

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

krashcoarse — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:46:13 -0000

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.

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

inaequitas — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:45:43 -0000

There is also TTYtter at http://www.floodgap.com/sof... 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.

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

Queco Jones — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:39:30 -0000

http://funkatron.com/spaz

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

joshrholloway — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:39:26 -0000

Several open-source client apps for Twitter already exist.
http://www.google.com/searc...

Unless you mean "open-source Twitter alternative," in which case I would say we don't need one.

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

AndyBeard — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:34:02 -0000

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

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

Foomandoonian — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:31:06 -0000

There are of course clients like Twitux and gTwitter on Linux. I take it you mean a more fully featured, cross platform client?

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

iTechGirl — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:29:32 -0000

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.