Thx for the suggestion.
Using Debian and can tell that some application which should work
cause errors.
Simply not possible to try all applications, may some applications got
also a fix meanwhile.
chronicon was new to me, hoping this will work somehow.


On Sep 4, 5:56 am, Bernd Stramm <bernd.str...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 15:20:15 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Herb <taa.t...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Has all to do with Twitter.
> > Changing to OAuth was really not needed and the problems for this
> > change really obvious in first place, but since Twitter has that much
> > users they probably feel that they can do whatever they like.
> > Didn't find any way to use successfully OAuth for some Linux
> > application in two weeks,
>
> As I said, my application works, on Fedora, Ubuntu Lucid, OpenSUSE and
> MeeGo.
>
> Look athttp://chronicon.sourceforge.net.
>
> It is also in my launchpad ppa, and in my yum/zypper repos at
> build.opensuse.org.
>
> There are other twitter clients that also use qoauth. As far as I know,
> those are working as well.
>
> > Terminal updates for sure never will work
> > again and and and..... the list is endless.
> > This raise the question why there is a Twitter API at all available if
> > the usage is not user friendly at all.
>
> > Well, point is if this situation continuous for some time it may
> > provides a way for something else that is better usable than Twitter.
>
> There already is StatusNet. You can run your own service, or subscribe
> to identi.ca.
>
> Of course the value of twitter is the large number of users. Most
> people use twitter to publish their content, so the number of readers
> is what they go after.
>
>
>
> > On Sep 4, 5:01 am, Scott Wilcox <sc...@dor.ky> wrote:
> > > Hmm, that would be down to the developers of said applications not
> > > moving them to OAuth, nothing to do with Twitter. They've had
> > > plenty of time and warnings to do so.
>
> > > Don't take it out on Twitter when its down to the developers of the
> > > applications to maintain them.
>
> > > On 3 Sep 2010, at 22:43, Herb wrote:
>
> > > > You find not one Twitter application for Linux that is working.
> > > > Means Twitter is just useless if you use Linux.
> > > > Not to talk from the thousands of Websites which send status
> > > > messages to Twitter (e.g. a new posting/thread is entered).
>
> > > > Looks like OAuth really works out for Twitter.
> > > > Thx a lot guys, but it's time to look for something else than
> > > > Twitter. Having enough people using the service and just doing
> > > > that what you guys have done is absolutely not amusing.
>
> > >  smime.p7s
> > > 5KViewDownload
>
> --
> Bernd Stramm
> bernd.str...@gmail.com

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