Evilwm folks, you will love it. A twitter desktop client that is completely controlled from Terminal. Twidge is a command line twitter desktop client for Linux. It's feature rich and obviously easy to use.





Compatible with any microblogging service that is using twitter API including Twitter and Identi.ca.

Twidge can do everything one expects from a normal twitter desktop client, but the difference is, it is all managed via command line, terminal ie.

Post updates, see your friend's updates, read direct messages, read replies, follow/unfollow tweeple and so on.

URL shortening. EDIT: Update for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narhwal Users Twidge is available within the official Ubuntu repositories for those using Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal and Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. sudo apt-get install twidge Done. How to Install Twidge Twitter Client in Ubuntu

Non Ubuntu Linux users, visit this link. You will have to add debian squeeze repo first of all.

Open /etc/apt/sources.list. I am using gedit here for the sake of simplicity. sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Now copy paste the following line into sources.list file.

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian squeeze main

Done. Save and exit.

Now the installation. Do the following in Terminal.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install twidge

Done.

List of Commands

You can get the full list of commands available in Twidge by typing the following in Terminal. twidge lscommands That's it I guess. Enjoy this one of its kind experience.