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Adium adds support for IRC and Twitter...

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50 pointsforsaken17 comments

Twitter support is unusable [for me]. Adium adds everyone you follow to the contact list. I follow 357 people. That's a pretty big contact list.

It is OK for using direct messages as IM, but it won't replace your Twitter client.

twitter is the "me too" feature, I guess.

twitter is not an IM service.

Unfortunately it is for many people. Thankfully we have the unfollow button for those that feel the need to organise every facet of their life via twitter.

There's a "Show people I follow in the contact list" option you can disable. Or just hide that group when you're not trying to find someone to DM.

Same for IRC. All users from the channels I joined are on the contact list.

I like the Twitter support! A lot really.... it integrates all the IM in one place. Tweeting gets more familiar and easy.

You can send direct messages by chating with that contact the same way you'd do in MSN/AIM. There is always a group chat called Timeline updating the tweets being sent, where you can RT, reply and tag as favorite.

I'm convinced and maybe will drop Twitterific...

IRC support is great, I can finally ditch Colloquy. I consider Twitter to be asynchronous, so I still use a separate application for that.

colloquy is 100 times better with buttesfire - http://github.com/shaniqua/buttesfire/downloads

What is buttesfire? I looked through the repo but there wasn't any information on what it does.

oh it's a campfire-style theme for colloquy

I think the IRC support was already part of libpurple, the Pidgin library that Adium is built around, but Adium's interface didn't support it to begin with.

I misread Adium as Atium.

Gave me a mental image of Kelsier (from Mistborn) responding to tweets he hasn't actually received yet.

(It's possible SOMEONE else here has read that series...)

It was about time... Pidgin has this a while ago, they just needed to port it and add the fancy ui ;)

I miss something simple - how do I tweet? (not DM to someone in my contact list)

Go to file, mouse over the twitter account and "update tweets" It should open a group chat called Timeline.

I wonder what they did that makes it suddenly require 10.5. That's a deal-breaker, at least for me.

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