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How About an Official Twitter Client for Linux?

Posted by hanuca on · 7 comments
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A few hours ago, on August 28th, The Linux Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, proudly announced that Inktank, Servergy and Twitter joined the organization.

Putting Inktank and Servergy aside, some of you already knew that Twitter was about to join The Linux Foundation on Tuesday, thanks to the media coverage from the past week.

So, today we are proud to announce that it's official, though Twitter’s Chris Aniszczyk is yet to deliver a keynote entitled "The OSS Behind a Tweet." at LinuxCon on Thursday, August 30th at 9:55 A.M..

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Comments (7)

notbob ·
Are you kidding me!? There is no good client for sending/receiving 140 alphanumeric characters on Linux? It's what Linux does better than anything else. Is Twitter working overtime to foil Linux clients? Using some kinda mysterious closed-source protocol? I'm sorry, but I don't understand. I guess I'm jes not big enough of a twit. ;)

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rexbinary ·
There are good ones, but none of them are coded by Twitter. :)
Fettoosh ·
Twit ==> A silly or foolish person

Oh, is that the real reason why they call it Twitter! I am glad I don't twit yet. :-)

HoTMetaL ·
I doubt Twitter has any interest in desktop Linux, let alone building clients for it. Their interest in the foundation is likely fueled solely by their dependence on the kernel to power their entire infrastructure.
notbob ·
So, what are all those Middle Eastern denizens using to twitter up an Arab Spring? Somehow, i jes can't see a buncha A-rabs with insanely expensive IPhones or M$ Zunes. I suspect most use Android smartphones. What app is the most popular for twitter on an Android device? Is that not a Linux based app? ....kinda? As you may have deduced, by now, I know spit about cellphones and their ilk. ;)
jacog ·
And I always thought the best app to use for something like Twitter is one's frickin' web browser.
gus3 ·
The best app for Twitter is /dev/null.

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