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RainbowStream: A Twitter client on the terminal

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There is also t which is a CLI app written in Ruby: https://github.com/sferik/t.

This is the one I've been using, it's quite nice since it plays well with typical unix streaming data through pipes workflow. Maybe not so much if you just want a interface.

I've been using turses (https://github.com/dialelo/turses). no images, but works great.

I'm a fan of bitlbee + ircii, but this seems neat too.

Twirssi for me with Pushbullet notifications and regex highlighting :)

there is also a cli app that's written in perl: http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/

This one is abandoned by its author. And now starting to become useless, after twitter changed how they display retweets (if you add comments), basicly you get the comment and then a link to the tweet.

Rainbowstream looks good, works well as far as I tested, but leaves a bit to be desired in the way you interact with it. Being able to just type to tweet in ttytter was nice, with all commands starting with a slash - a bit like IRC.

Rainbowstream's "conversation" command is way too long. I use ttytter's /th command quite a lot, very short.

You can use also use conv<TAB> which is a bit shorter.

I don't think ttytter is true abandonware. Though the website and version number haven't been bumped since 2012, I have noticed a few small changes as reclently as 2014 (since I keep a copy in git).

As for fixing things, can't beat the simplicity of a one-file perl impl! Do you have an example of how retweets are broken? I haven't noticed, but it sounds like you need to be following someone using some special feature for RTs?

https://alpha.app.net/doctorlinguist/post/19370071

"[...] it is very unlikely I will do further updates on TTYtter given my wish for Twitter, Inc. to DIAF [...]"

Awhile ago, if you tweeted a link to another tweet, twitter embedded the tweet. They're now doing the same with a new function for retweets. "RT with a comment" appears like your comment with a link to the tweet you RT.

This tweet: https://twitter.com/daraobriain/status/587954257816588288

Appears like this:

u5> [15:23:00] <daraobriain> Has this JUST happened? Jesus. https://twitter.com/fionapm2001/status/587953715883151360

edit: http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/06/retweetception/

I'm honestly surprised this exists, given Twitter's crackdown on all third-party products that don't follow their user experience guidelines and/or allow raw access to tweet data. This client does both, so I wonder how they got away with it.

I use this application for about 3 months and I must say I'm quite happy with it.

How secure is this? I'm thinking about crafted tweets which executes shellscripts for example, don't know if this is possible.

I love the retromodernism of tty image feeds. New usage, old ways. #libcaca

What's the real advantage of this kind of applications? Every month I see something like hackernews-cli client, twitter-cli client, facebook-cli client. I wonder if is there anyone really use them?

I find it quite useful at work - even though things are relaxed and I wouldn't get in any trouble for having a quick check of social networks and news sites, I still don't feel great about having e.g Facebook open in my browser when people walk past.

Funnily enough I often wonder the opposite. Why have a full-blown GUI when I could easily and efficiently write commands in the CLI version, in a quickly splitted terminal in byobu or terminator? Examples: git vs git-gui, vim vs Notepad++, lynx vs firefox (for quick searches), apt-get instead of "Software Center", convert vs GIMP (for quick image transformations), ls/du/ vs Nautilus, mkdir vs (right-click -> new folder), etc.

I run twirssi[1], an irssi-based twitter client, on my server to easily skim tweets and log them into a greppable text file.

[1] http://twirssi.com/

Where is notification of mentions or highlight?

man if only they had something like this for hipchat, slack, and skype i'd be set.

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