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Twitter is a well know status update and status sharing site. Also there is no dearth of desktop applications for twitter. Some popular one’s are tweetdeck and twhirl. Both of these are adobe AIR based applications. Then there are the one’s which integrate with your browser like twitterfox and twitterbar. In linx there are also fancy or rather geeky ways of tweeting from the terminal itself.

HechteTwitter is a twitter client for linux environment which is unintrusive and simple. It’s a lightweight desktop Twitter client, written in GTK+ and Ruby, whose only elusive goal is not to suck.

HechteTwittermain

Features

  • Timeline viewing (friends, replies, everyone)
  • Posting to Twitter
  • Setting/unsetting tweets as favorite
  • Blocking users
  • Replying to tweets
  • D-Bus notifications
  • Locally cached images (updated if they happen to change)

Install HechteTwitter

In order to install HechteTwitter we’ll need the following 3 packages

You can download these deb files. Double click them and install.

HechteTwitter

HechteTwitter2

HechteTwitter3

Home Page

http://code.google.com/p/hechtetwitter/

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