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Twitter IM support coming to Adium

by Jay Hathaway on March 13, 2009 at 09:00 AM

What a joy to see the two apps I have open all day coming together! I'm an IM and Twitter junkie, and Twitter hasn't had IM support in some time. Fortunately, the developers behind my IM client of choice, Adium, are working to put together their own version of a Twitter IM service.

Your Twitter contacts would show up in your Adium list, and you can follow, unfollow and presumably group them from there. Opening a new chat will allow you to exchange direct messages. Displaying your timeline will be handled through Adium's existing group chat interface, with @replies to you highlighted. All in all, this looks like a promising project to restore a Twitter feature that a lot of people found useful. Now, if only they could figure out how to bring back tracking ...

[via TUAW]

Tags: adium, chat, IM, twitter

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Spenser JonesMar 13th 2009 10:38AM

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Using it right now and it is slick! Read and reply links on every tweet (even replies TO a message, so no random messages appearing now, its all linked). Updates as frequent as every 2 minutes (not sure if they have rate limiting set up yet, or if they ever will, as their current setup is nice) and they have plenty of features in the works for it too!

BTW, there is no beta or alpha or anything yet, but I am using the SVN release. If you aren't really tech-savvy, don't even consider running it :P

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