Non web-based Twitter Client?

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Can anybody point me to a twitter client for the Raspberry Pi?

I'd like to use this for an event that I will be doing IT for. The idea is to have an unattended Rpi hooked up to a projector which will display certain search-terms.

People at the event can tweet to a hash-tag in order to display something on the screen.

Any suggestions?

Edit: I should clarify. This will be a social event where a lot of (non technical) people will be gathering in a bar, drinking over-priced beverages, observing some kind of cabaret acts, etc.

The event organizers wanted to give the event a "hashtag", (e.g. #fooevent).

The idea of this display is that any time somebody in the bar writes a tweet, we'd like it to appear on the screen after a short delay. It ought to be formatted nicely along with the user's icon.

By "non web-based", I meant not accessing Twitter via a web-browser. Some kind of twitter-client that can provide a more customized on-screen experience.

One idea was to hack Gwibbler, but I was hoping to spend not that much time on this project.

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 02 '12 at 01:28

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Try T. It's a Twitter CLI client, written in Ruby.

edited Jul 02 '12 at 01:28

answered Jul 01 '12 at 17:03

Alex Chamberlain

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Neat, but not what I'm after. T does not appear to have any kind of GUI (it's a pure CLI client), which means it's not going to look all that good for a non-technical audience on those projectors! – Salim Fadhley Jul 01 '12 at 18:35
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@SalimFadhley Define non-web based then? – Jivings Jul 01 '12 at 18:39
I've clarified above. – Salim Fadhley Jul 01 '12 at 18:50

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 01 '12 at 11:13

I wrote my own in 'talking twitter client' Python using twitter streaming api. The streaming api might be a better solution for your display, as you wouldn't have to wait or poll for new results as twitter would stream the tweet to your client in realtime.

The client I wrote is not much more than a proof of concept, but it might give you a starting point, see stuffaboutcode.com talking twitter client

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 03 '12 at 12:20

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Check out http://www.sbprojects.com/projects/raspberrypi/tweet.php

Simply;

Get API account from supertweet.net
install CURL
run the shell script.

answered Nov 03 '12 at 12:20

A. Gurcan OZTURK

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 02 '12 at 10:05

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There are a number of twitter clients available for linux, many of which have GUI interfaces. I haven't used any of these, but according to its website Choqok supports the search API, so is probably something like what you are looking for.

answered Jul 02 '12 at 10:05

ToniWidmo

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score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Jul 02 '12 at 22:24

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I've used Twirssi in the past, it's a Twitter extension written for irssi.

Please note that I haven't used it for over a year, but based on the Twitter feed of the author it is still active and functioning.

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Jivings

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answered Jul 02 '12 at 11:08

vehka

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score 1 · Answer 6 · edited Jul 03 '12 at 01:13

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Given that Python is really well supported on the RPi, you should probably look at the python Twitter API which is easy to integrate for the suggested projector use.

Have a look at http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/ for more details.

And you can install it on your device by doing:

sudo pip install python-twitter

edited Jul 03 '12 at 01:13

answered Jul 02 '12 at 12:41

Maria Zverina

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Non web-based Twitter Client?

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