What is Twitim?

Twitim is a Twitter client for GNOME. It is implemented with Gtk2-Perl.

• Custom watchlists
• Sounds and pop-up notifications
• Support XMPP

1.2 release (2009-06-02)

• Fixed a freeze problem.
• Added support for getting direct messages periodically.
• Fixed minor bugs.

Screenshots

Main window

Pop-up notification

Installation

DebianPackages are available for Debian & Ubuntu users.

Manual installation

Download Twitim and extract it.

Depends

• AnyEvent
• Glib
• Gtk2
• LWP::UserAgent
• JSON::XS
• HTML::Entities
• URI

Recommends

Enable sounds, pop-up notifications and spell checking.

• Gnome2
• GStreamer
• Net::DBus::GLib
• Gtk2::Spell

Suggests

Enable XMPP connections.

• Net::XMPP2::Client
• XML::Simple

License

The license of Twitim is GPL 2 or later. The icons used in Twitim are from Pidgin. Thanks Hylke Bons! The module HyperText.pm is from the sample program from Gtk2-Perl (the original name is hypertext.pl). The license of this module is LGPL 2.1.

• Copyright © 2008 Yoshizumi Endo
• Copyright © 2003-2008 gtk2-perl team (HyperText.pm)
• Copyright © 1998-2007 Hylke Bons (Icons)

Contact

• Twitter: yendo0206
• E-mail: y-endo@ceres.dti.ne.jp