Tag Archives: Twitter

Twitter and Link Protocols

Believe it or not, links aren’t just to HTTP(s) websites – they are for anything. You can link to FTP sites and file sharing services in the past have supported linking to content on their clouds, such as Magnet. With Ubuntu you can link to a package or application for a user to install from

Adding Twitter to Pidgin

My friend Steven was raving about a plugin that adds support for the Twitter protocol to the Pidgin instant messenger. I’ve used a lot of other Twitter clients, but this is neat because it fits in with all my other instant messaging protocols. It would be nice if there was a PPA on Launchpad that

Checking out Thwirl

I’ve been using the Twitter web interface for a long time, and I prefer to keep my tweeting simple. However, with the stock web interface you can’t be logged into more than one account unless you’re using multiple profiles, incognito mode with Chrome, or some other trickery. I didn’t look around much before I found