Tired of all those Adobe AIR twitter apps? Well its high time we Linux users had our very own twitter client. Gwibber has been floated as the next big thing, but frankly I’m not convinced. I hope the Gwibber developers come up with something stable and usable by the next month when Ubuntu 10.04 releases.
In the meantime, I suggest you guys take a look at Pino. Its an ultra-lightweight Twitter client which does a fantastic job at what its meant to do. Of course, it has identi.ca integration, and if you need to use any other service you can add that as well.
Personally, I’m very impressed with Pino. I havent faced any difficulty in using any of its functions. Although Pino as of now, doesnt have the follow/unfollow features, I’m sure in time these will be integrated. But the bottomline is, if you need a proper, usable, GNOME friendly twitter client, Pino is your best bet.
How To Install:
Pino is available in the Ubuntu Software Center, so you can install it from there. Or use
sudo apt-get install pino
from the terminal.
To install it via the repositories in order to have the very latest version, type the following lines in the terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vala-team/ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:troorl/pino
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pino
Explore Ubuntu 
No, Pino is not available in S/W center. Not in mine at least.
sorry that was a mistake. corrected it now. thanks for pointing it out.
I’ve noticed that Fedora 13 is using this as the default twitter client!
Gracias por el post.
why not on windows đŸ˜¦
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/troorl/pino/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/troorl/pino/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
~$ sudo apt-get install pino
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package pino
yup there is a problem with pino repositories right now. hopefully they’ll resolve it soon.
For maverick consider getdeb:
http://www.getdeb.net/updates/Ubuntu/10.10#how_to_install
Go to System-Administration-Software Sources, Third-Party Software tab, Add:
deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu maverick-getdeb apps
Add the repository GPG key, open a terminal window and type:
wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add –
Then press install here: http://www.getdeb.net/updates/Ubuntu/10.10/?q=pino
But I can’t login… The connection runs in a time out… đŸ˜¦