1. Tweet

$/!\$ Tweet has not been ported to Clutter 1.x, and TwitterGlib has not been kept up to speed with the changes in the Twitter RESTful API. Hence, I consider Tweet a dead project.

1.1. About

Tweet is a simple desktop client for the Twitter messaging service. Tweet is written in C using GNOME platform libraries like:

and other GNOME-related libraries like:

Tweet uses Clutter as an hardware accelerated canvas for parts of its user interface; this requires a working OpenGL implementation.

1.2. Twitter-GLib

Twitter-GLib is the library used by Tweet to retrieve and update the Twitter status. Twitter-GLib uses LibSoup to access the RESTful API exposed by Twitter, and JSON-GLib to parse the JSON data streams returned by Twitter.

Twitter-GLib is installed system-wide with Tweet and can be used to build new applications interfacing with Twitter.

1.3. Development

Tweet is developed on a git repository hosted on Github; the master tree is viewable here and can be cloned using

  git clone git://github.com/ebassi/tweet.git

You can send me patches using git-format-patch or direct me to a tree I can pull from.

You can follow the development on the Tweet openhub page.

1.3.1. Releases

0.2.0 - first alpha release download here

1.4. Screenshots

Tweet main window

Screencast

1.5. Copyright and Licensing

Tweet is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3 or (at your option) later.

Twitter-GLib is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or (at your option) later.

1.6. Author

Emmanuele Bassi

1.7. To Do

--An icon for Tweet--
Show error messages in the UI instead of the console
--Add key bindings-- (done)
--Add a toolbar-- (done)
--Use nm-glib to find out whether we have network support-- (done)
Use LibUnique to handle a single instance
Show followers and following
Show the timeline of a single user
Add more details to the status info overlay (protected, following)
Add a button for opening a browser at the status page
Add a button for stop following a user
Add a button for direct messages