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Title: Tech Tip: Using Twitter and Facebook from Pidgin
Post by: sam on December 09, 2009, 02:15

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)

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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.

Title: Re: Tech Tip: Using Twitter and Facebook from Pidgin
Post by: Simon on December 09, 2009, 10:55

I use Pidgin for Windows.  It's great!

Title: Re: Tech Tip: Using Twitter and Facebook from Pidgin
Post by: Rik on December 09, 2009, 10:55

I didn't know you were a twit. ;D :scoot:

Title: Re: Tech Tip: Using Twitter and Facebook from Pidgin
Post by: Simon on December 09, 2009, 11:51

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

Title: Re: Tech Tip: Using Twitter and Facebook from Pidgin
Post by: Rik on December 09, 2009, 11:55

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

Title: Re: Tech Tip: Using Twitter and Facebook from Pidgin
Post by: Simon on December 09, 2009, 11:58

I wonder why?  :devil:

Title: Re: Tech Tip: Using Twitter and Facebook from Pidgin
Post by: Rik on December 09, 2009, 12:00

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

Title: Re: Tech Tip: Using Twitter and Facebook from Pidgin
Post by: Simon on December 09, 2009, 12:05

;D

Title: Re: Tech Tip: Using Twitter and Facebook from Pidgin
Post by: sam on December 09, 2009, 15:07

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