MadBuntu

So maybe you have created a twitter account and been playing around with it.  But you need more power then the tweeting from the web can give you.  You need to shorten URLs on the fly.  You need to customize the look of your client.  You need to be able to post to multiple account sat once.  You need Twhirl.

First we need to install AIR from Adobe.  Adobe AIR is a framework that allows web application to run as desktop applications.  Right now, Air is an alpha distribution for Linux, and some applications will only run on Mac or Windows, but Twhirl works fine.

Installing AIR

1. Go to Adobe Labs and download the distribution for Linux.
2. Make the download executable.
3. Run the installer

The installer is fairly straight forward and should install without a problem after you agree to the Adobe terms.

Now that we have the framework installed, we can install Twhirl.

Get The latest Twhirl (0.8.3 at this writing) from Twhirl.org.

Download the file and save it, then open the Adobe Air Application installer (by default locate in Applications->Other->Adobe Air Application Installer).

Now install Twhirl with the AIR installer

I just took the defaults

Now you should have Twhirl up and running!  Happy Twittering.

* A couple small gotchas with Twhilr on Linux:

• For some reason, even though I select “Remember Password”, it never seems to remember my password.
• On first install, you need to enter your twitter account information, exit Twhirl, then restart it for it to connect.
• When a new version of Twhirl comes out, download it.  The automatic upgrade doesn’t seem to work.