What is pidgin-twitter?

pidgin-twitter (also known as "ぴじつた") is a pidgin plugin which provides a lot of useful features to the users who use pidgin as a front for Twitter and similar services.

Features

pidgin-twitter supports Twitter, Wassr, identi.ca, jisko, and friendfeed now.

General

display user icon (size configurable)
translate sender's name and @<username> to link to the user's home
play sounds for specific senders/recipients
show letter counter on the format toolbar
filter messages from specified users

Twitter specific

get/post Twitter statuses via API
supports OAuth authentication
reply/favorite/retweet/quote tweet functionalities
translate #<search tag> to link to the search query
escape pseudo commands like "w"
suppress oops message return

Wassr specific

Translate #<channel name> to link to the channel

identi.ca specific

Translate #<tag> to link to the tag

Released Files

Sources

see README in the archive for detail

Windows binaries

pidgin-twitter-0.9.2 (built by @konosuke)
pidgin-twitter-0.9.1 (for Pidgin-2.7.0) (built by @konosuke)
pidgin-twitter-0.9.1 (built by @konosuke)
pidgin-twitter-0.9.0 (built by @konosuke)
pidgin-twitter-0.8.5.2 (built by @konosuke)
pidgin-twitter-0.8.5 (built by @konosuke)
pidgin-twitter-0.8.4 (built by @konosuke)
pidgin-twitter-0.8.3 (built by @konosuke)
pidgin-twitter-0.8.2 (built by @konosuke)
pidgin-twitter-0.8.1 (built by @konosuke)
pidgin-twitter-0.8.0 (built by @konosuke)
pidgin-twitter-0.7.0 (built by @konosuke)
pidgin-twitter-0.7.0-alpha1 (built by @konosuke)

Ubuntu binaries

You can manage pidgin-twitter package with programs such as apt-get, aptitude, and synaptic by adding following 2 lines in e.g., /etc/apt/sources.list. For the detail of the repository, please refer @jbl_'s launchpad.

For Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jean-baptiste-lab/ubuntu jaunty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/jean-baptiste-lab/ubuntu jaunty main
For Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jean-baptiste-lab/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/jean-baptiste-lab/ubuntu intrepid main
For Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jean-baptiste-lab/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/jean-baptiste-lab/ubuntu hardy main