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Adium adds support for IRC and Twitter...

50 points by forsaken 17y ago

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dchest 17y ago
Twitter support is unusable [for me]. Adium adds everyone you follow to the contact list. I follow 357 people. That's a pretty big contact list. It is OK for using direct messages as IM, but it won't replace your Twitter client.
- pclark 17y ago
  twitter is the "me too" feature, I guess.
  - riffic 17y ago
    twitter is not an IM service.
    - tdm911 17y ago
      Unfortunately it is for many people. Thankfully we have the unfollow button for those that feel the need to organise every facet of their life via twitter.
- tlrobinson 17y ago
  There's a "Show people I follow in the contact list" option you can disable. Or just hide that group when you're not trying to find someone to DM.
- arthurk 17y ago
  Same for IRC. All users from the channels I joined are on the contact list.
intranation 17y ago
IRC support is great, I can finally ditch Colloquy. I consider Twitter to be asynchronous, so I still use a separate application for that.
- riffic 17y ago
  colloquy is 100 times better with buttesfire - http://github.com/shaniqua/buttesfire/downloads http://github.com/shaniqua/buttesfire/downloads
  - arthurk 17y ago
    What is buttesfire? I looked through the repo but there wasn't any information on what it does.
    - riffic 17y ago
      oh it's a campfire-style theme for colloquy
- graywh 17y ago
  I think the IRC support was already part of libpurple, the Pidgin library that Adium is built around, but Adium's interface didn't support it to begin with.
miguelpais 17y ago
I like the Twitter support! A lot really.... it integrates all the IM in one place. Tweeting gets more familiar and easy. You can send direct messages by chating with that contact the same way you'd do in MSN/AIM. There is always a group chat called Timeline updating the tweets being sent, where you can RT, reply and tag as favorite. I'm convinced and maybe will drop Twitterific...
igorgue 17y ago
It was about time... Pidgin has this a while ago, they just needed to port it and add the fancy ui ;)
dlytle 17y ago
I misread Adium as Atium. Gave me a mental image of Kelsier (from Mistborn) responding to tweets he hasn't actually received yet. (It's possible SOMEONE else here has read that series...)
fortepianissimo 17y ago
I miss something simple - how do I tweet? (not DM to someone in my contact list)
- miguelpais 17y ago
  Go to file, mouse over the twitter account and "update tweets" It should open a group chat called Timeline.
Kadin 17y ago
I wonder what they did that makes it suddenly require 10.5. That's a deal-breaker, at least for me.

50 points by forsaken 17y ago

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Twitter support is unusable [for me]. Adium adds everyone you follow to the contact list. I follow 357 people. That's a pretty big contact list. It is OK for using direct messages as IM, but it won't replace your Twitter client.

pclark 17y ago
twitter is the "me too" feature, I guess.
- riffic 17y ago
  twitter is not an IM service.
  - tdm911 17y ago
    Unfortunately it is for many people. Thankfully we have the unfollow button for those that feel the need to organise every facet of their life via twitter.
tlrobinson 17y ago
There's a "Show people I follow in the contact list" option you can disable. Or just hide that group when you're not trying to find someone to DM.
arthurk 17y ago
Same for IRC. All users from the channels I joined are on the contact list.

intranation 17y ago

IRC support is great, I can finally ditch Colloquy. I consider Twitter to be asynchronous, so I still use a separate application for that.

riffic 17y ago
colloquy is 100 times better with buttesfire - http://github.com/shaniqua/buttesfire/downloads http://github.com/shaniqua/buttesfire/downloads
- arthurk 17y ago
  What is buttesfire? I looked through the repo but there wasn't any information on what it does.
  - riffic 17y ago
    oh it's a campfire-style theme for colloquy
graywh 17y ago
I think the IRC support was already part of libpurple, the Pidgin library that Adium is built around, but Adium's interface didn't support it to begin with.

miguelpais 17y ago

I like the Twitter support! A lot really.... it integrates all the IM in one place. Tweeting gets more familiar and easy. You can send direct messages by chating with that contact the same way you'd do in MSN/AIM. There is always a group chat called Timeline updating the tweets being sent, where you can RT, reply and tag as favorite. I'm convinced and maybe will drop Twitterific...

igorgue 17y ago

It was about time... Pidgin has this a while ago, they just needed to port it and add the fancy ui ;)

dlytle 17y ago

I misread Adium as Atium. Gave me a mental image of Kelsier (from Mistborn) responding to tweets he hasn't actually received yet. (It's possible SOMEONE else here has read that series...)

fortepianissimo 17y ago

I miss something simple - how do I tweet? (not DM to someone in my contact list)

miguelpais 17y ago
Go to file, mouse over the twitter account and "update tweets" It should open a group chat called Timeline.

Kadin 17y ago

I wonder what they did that makes it suddenly require 10.5. That's a deal-breaker, at least for me.