Gwibber

Gwibber (/ˈɡwɪbər/) was a microblogging client for the GNOME desktop environment. It brings the most popular social networking services like Facebook, Twitter, etc. into a single window and gives ability to control communication through one single application. It was created by Ryan Paul, a writer for Ars Technica.

Gwibber
Gwibber 2.0
Developer(s)List of the Gwibber developers
Initial releaseFebruary 19, 2009 (2009-02-19)
Stable release
3.6.0 / October 4, 2012 (2012-10-04)[1]
Repository
Written inPython
Operating systemLinux
Available inMultilingual
TypeMicroblogging client
LicenseGNU GPL
Websitegwibber.com

It only runs on Linux and is written in Python using PyGTK. It ships with Ubuntu 10.04 and above. Gwibber supports multiple social networking sites in a combined social stream with URL shortening, saved searches, and a multicolumn UI.

In 2013 it was renamed to Friends and the frontend was rewritten in QML.[2]

Supported services
Platform Gwibber v. 1.x Gwibber v. 2.x Gwibber v. 3.x
Brightkite No Yes ?
Digg Yes Yes Yes
Facebook Yes Yes Yes
Flickr Yes Yes Yes
Foursquare ? ? Yes
FriendFeed No Yes Yes
Google+ No No No[3]
Google Reader Yes No No
StatusNet Yes Yes Yes
OCS No Yes ?
Pidgin Yes No ?
Ping.fm Yes No Yes
Pump.io No No No
Qaiku No Yes Yes
RSS/Atom Yes No* Yes[4]
Sina ? ? Yes
Sohu ? ? Yes
Twitter Yes Yes Yes
  • Support for RSS/Atom will be re-added in Gwibber version 3[4]

See also

References
  1. "Gwibber project files : Gwibber". Launchpad.net. Retrieved 2013-11-27.
  2. https://launchpad.net/friends-app
  3. "Bug #805452 "Add Google+ Service to Gwibber" : Bugs : Gwibber". Bugs.launchpad.net. Retrieved 2013-11-27.
  4. "Bug #422602 "Bring back support for RSS/Atom feeds" : Bugs : Gwibber". Bugs.launchpad.net. Retrieved 2013-11-27.


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