Twitter, again

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Hi all,


I found cawbird for Arch to be semi usable. It is a GUI application, but 
being a pragmatist, I will use whatever does the job. Unfortunately I 
actually need twitter for some of my work, so I will have to see if 
cawbird is available in Slint. I love both Arch and Slint, but I have to 
use whatever works for my situation.

Warm regards,

Brandt Steenkamp

Sent from Thunderbird on  Arch Linux

On 7/21/21 3:49 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2021, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>
>> Oysttyer has been available for some time now and perl is used to run 
>> it.
>> The emacs environment has ttytter available, and python has
>> rainbow-twitter available.
>
> Note that Oysttyer is the successor to TTYtter, both in Perl. TTYtter 
> has not been developed since 2012 and there's probably no good reason 
> to use it anymore.
>
> Oysttyer itself has not seen any commits since 2018, which is a bit 
> concerning.
>
> More annoying is that all installs show up as the same app, and 
> because of Twitter stupidness, all count in terms of daily quotas, 
> etc.  So it's common to be unable to post due to quotas having been 
> exceeded when you've not posted anything today.
>
> I'll spare you my rant about Twitter and the way they manage their 
> API. The one-line summary of it is that they should charge *users* a 
> nominal fee for API access and leave the poor developers alone.
>
> I've not tried RainbowStream, I've been meaning to.  At least it seems 
> to be under active development.
>
> There are some other options out there.  Searching your favourite 
> package manager will likely turn up some.
>
> Cheers,
> Geoff.
>
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