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Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging

Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".

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Can I run a command WITHIN another command?

Can I run a command within another command for example: twidge update date date being the bash command date so effectively, twidge will update twitter with today's date. twidge is a CLI based twitter client.
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Who to follow on Twitter if you are interested in Ubuntu?

I'd like to know whom I should follow on Twitter, to get my daily dose of Ubuntu news, tips, and random bits. Which members from the Ubuntu community are active on Twitter?
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Twitter media cannot be played from Firefox

I just installed Ubuntu 16.10 but it cannot play some videos from Twitter in Firefox. Instead, I get a message, something like This media cannot be reproduced. If I open the Firefox console, I see this message: The video on this page can’t be…
brandizzi
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What microblogging clients are available?

What GUI Twitter clients are there for Ubuntu? Please include reasons why you like - or highlight features that make a client unique. Please also keep to one client per answer.
Olivier Lalonde
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How do I install Polly?

So I was reading over on OMG! Ubuntu! about this new Ubuntu twitter client called "Polly", and I was wondering how to install it.
jrg
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Is there a keyboard shortcut to open the Indicator Applet?

How can I get here using keyboard shortcuts?
ændrük
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Twitter client with Real Time Notifications?

Is there a Twitter client (or just a utility) that pushes real time Twitter feed / mentions notifications? By real time, I mean notified as soon as the tweet is posted, like what MetroTwit does in Windows.
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Twitter is missing from the list of Online Accounts in Ubuntu 14.04 - GNOME

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with GNOME shell and from the list of "Add an Online Account", Twitter is missing. Below is a screenshot: Any idea why?
Ashin Mandal
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Is there any Ubuntu twitter app that handles scheduled tweets?

I'm looking for an app that can schedule tweets for future times, rather than only tweeting now, as Gwibber does. I'm looking for a native Ubuntu app because: I'd prefer using something that's free software and Web-apps such as Hootsuite have a…
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What is the best multi-account Twitter client?

I used Gwibber in the past to follow two Twitter accounts I have. To distinguish between the two, it was possible to assign a different colour to each account. Now I'm trying to use Gwibber again but the colour assign feature seems gone. Instead…
To Do
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Does ubuntu have a social client faster than Gwibber?

I just installed ubuntu 12.04 and I began using Gwibber for my accounts of twitter and facebook, but it's so slow.
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Twitter command line client

I would like to find a command line Twitter client that has at least the following features : Retrieve my feed list Post Tweet List my notifications Is there an application, preferably without manually using curl and the Twitter API ?
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Will gwibber be fixed to work with new twitter API

Will gwibber be fixed to work with new twitter API as it was official twitter client for 12.04 LTS, or should we search for the twitter client that works with new API? The fix is here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gwibber/+bug/1190575
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Twitter "Authentication Error" Turpial & Choqok (latest versions)

I use Turpial a lot, but Turpial isn't connecting at all. I can still connect to Twitter thru the OS app (no issues signing in through Online Accounts) and of course I can still sign in using the browser, but Turpial gives me an "Authentication…
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How to check most recent tweet via command line on Linux?

I have a highly active Twitter account that I sometimes write replies to. Whenever I can, I try to reply to it right away. Twitter has a feature that allows you to get notifications whenever someone tweets, but I have noticed that sometimes it lags…
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