Tweet - A simple Twitter desktop client
 
Tweet is a desktop client for the Twitter web service. The Twitter
web service is described as:
 
  Twitter is for staying in touch and keeping up with friends no matter
  where you are or what you’re doing. For some friends you might want
  instant mobile updates - for others, you can just check the web. Invite
  your friends to Twitter and decide how connected you want you to be.
                -- from http://twitter.com
 
In short, is a web-based SMS-like service.
 
Tweet is a client written to read your friends' status and update your
own without using a web browser.
 
Tweet depends on:
 
  - GLib >= 2.16
  - JSON-GLib >= 0.6
  - Clutter >= 0.6.2
  - ClutterGtk >= 0.6.1
  - ClutterCairo >= 0.6.1
  - libsoup >= 2.4.1
  - GTK+ >= 2.12
 
Tweet is based on, and provides for third parties, a GObject-based library
for reading and updating the Twitter status; the library is installed and
it is available so that other applications can integrate with it.
 
INSTALLATION
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Se the INSTALL file. Until a login dialog is added, in order to run Tweet
you need to create a tweet.json file in:
 
  $HOME/.config/tweet/tweet.json
 
containing your username and password for accessing. The format is JSON,
and looks like:
 
  {
    "username" : "your-username",
    "password" : "your-password"
  }
 
change "your-username" with your username and "your-password" with your
password.
 
Tweet is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
version 2 or, at your option, any later version.
 
Twitter-GLib is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General
Public License version 2.1 or, at your option, any later version.
 
Tweet and Twitter-GLib are copyright (C) 2008  Emmanuele Bassi.