This project implement a plug-in for any LibPurple base client like Pidgin or Finch . Currently it support Twitter, Identica, and Laconica-base server through the conversation windows. Right now it run on Linux and Windows.

• Please upgrade your MBPurple to 0.2.2 before reporting any bugs!
• Installation instruction for Ubuntu is available here.
• README is here

Version 0.2.2 is released (14/6/2009)

• Fix id overflow (receiving duplicate tweets) bug for twitter.com
• Add CACerts to windows installer
• Fix few minor bugs
• Plug-in for Adium is also released! Thanks to @jsippel.

Another new release for Adium (21/5/2009)

• This release update libpurple
• Courtesy goes to @jsippel!
• Download it here

Version 0.2.1 is released (3/3/2009)

Don't forget to enable Twitgin in Tools->Plugin

This version contain major bug fixes and some improvements

• Twitter, Identica, and Laconica now serve mainly as protocol only plug-in. You need to enable Twitgin in order to get old fancy output in conversation windows
• Fix SSL connection bug that may crash Pidgin when connection is unstable
• Clicking reply link now add in_reply_to_id http parameter (make the message appear sa "reply to message" in web-site)
• Remove "twitter.com" label. Now conversation showed as if coming from each individual user
• Add * (Favorite) and RT (Retweet) link for easy favorite and retweet (thanks to @nopparat)
• Move "Enable reply link" preference to Twitgin "Configure plug-in".

We are also working on Adium port of MBPurple. Hopefully this will be released very soon!

Version 0.2.0 is released (7/11/2008)

This is a new major release with some more features, along with major code restructure. This release only works with Pidgin 2.5.x

• Beta support for Identi.ca and Laconica, as separated plug-ins.
• A bit of improvement in message display
• Improve Twitgin support, no self-generated message also being renice
• Support for 2 commands, right now it only works for Twitter.
• /replies - get replies timeline
• /refresh - get new tweets immediately
• /tag, /btag, /untag - automatically tag all your message, good for tagging messages with some hash tag (Example: #election2008).
• Lots more configurable options in Plug-in.

Don't forget to enable Twitgin to see new features!

Note that, this new version is INCOMPATIBLE with older version. You will need to remove and re-add the plug-in to get all new features.

Version 0.1.2 is released (16/8/2008)

This release fix  issue#17  which can crash Pidgin when clicking "reconnect" or Pidgin do automatic reconnect.

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