Note: Thanks to segphault (at) gwibber I can revise my whole post and and say that gwibber is my client of choice. Check the comments for his response to find out how to use the client properly.

So as some of you already know I’m a strong advocate of Ubuntu as a desktop environment.

With the release of 10.04 they have now included a new social media client called Gwibber. My first foray into using it was rather unsuccessful but i recent have revised my opinion.

By default its a rather bland and unimaginative to look at but it does handle a large number of social networks as it stands it currently covers

  • Flickr
  • Twitter
  • StatusNet
  • Qaiku
  • Facebook
  • FriendFeed
  • Digg
  • Identi.ca

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