Topic: Tech Tip: Using Twitter and Facebook from Pidgin

[sam]

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/tech-tip-using-twitter-and-facebook-pidgin?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+linuxjournalcom+(Linux+Journal+-+The+Original+Magazine+of+the+Linux+Community)

In the vast world of communication, instant messaging is a long-standing medium. Facebook has entered the scene relatively recently, as has Twitter. If you use these newer mediums of communication and you're a Pidgin user then you may want to look at the Pidgin plugins for accessing them.

Pidgin is an an Instant Messaging client that has plugins and capabilities to connect to you to all of your favorite messaging protocols (MSN, Yahoo!, AOL, ICQ, Google Talk, etc..), and in addition there are third-party plugins for Facebook and Twitter. The integration is magnificent, I was like a kid on Christmas morning when I found this out and started using it.

[Simon]

I use Pidgin for Windows.  It's great!

[Rik]

I didn't know you were a twit.

[Simon]

I don't twit, I IM with my two, yes TWO contacts. 

[Rik]

That's two more than me. I used to IM with Adam, but he kept wandering off without bothering to tell me... 

[Simon]

I wonder why? 

[Rik]

Well, he did it in everything else too, so I don't think it was a problem of me being malodorous. 

[Simon]

[sam]

I only IM on google chat these days... great that it just works in the webbrowser and it looks like i'm just checking my emails at work :-D