twitter plugin for pidgin

[Felipe Contreras]

2008/1/30 Will Thompson <will at willthompson.co.uk>:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:04:32PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > Status messages? like "In a meeting", or "Going to lunch"? Those might
> > be a little bit of overkill for twitter :)
> >
> > Perhaps personal messages would be more appropriate, but Pidgin
> > doesn't have support for that.
>
> Quite a lot of people use their status messages on XMPP, AIM et al. for
> Twitter-esque messages, not "In a meeting".  For those people, such a
> plugin would not be a Twitter overkill.
>
> There are other people (when I last used an MSN prpl that shows them,
> half the MSN contacts on my list) who use their MSN "personal message"
> for "in a meeting".  For those people, clearly syncing their personal
> message to Twitter would be ridiculous.
>
> I think this illustrates nicely that personal messages and status
> messages are simply different uses of the same feature.  :-)

Yeah, just $whatever messages, up to the user how to use them.

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Felipe Contreras