Twitter integration for Adium in process

In fact, you CAN easily manage Twitter with Aidium - using http://tweet.im !

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Nice, but I can't wait for digsby to hit MacOSX.

It's twitter integration is perfect.

Adium is nice, but the updates are few and far between, while digsby is constantly refining and adding new features.

Am I the only one yearning to see Adium ported to the iPhone? I'd ditch the AOL IM client in a second.

This is the best news story ever.

This is quite easy using Jabbers MUC. I've built an experimental gateway, which represents a Twitter/Identi.ca account as Multi-User-Chat. See http://gonzo.teamidiot.de/repos/ombmuc/

personally i like the idea if it's kept separate enough from impeding my IM usability

...why bash vista in an adium/twitter post, don't get it.

that's a great news. i'm waiting for this for a long time.

Oh nice, now I can have 300 more "friends" on my Adium... Lovely!
When will people understand that the nature of Twitter is VERY different from IM?

My approach to include it in IM: IRC channel-like, with /ignore and stuff (and IRC2Twitter engine already exists... use that) and DMs being handled like pvt chats; ONE WINDOW/TAB!

Seriously: pollute my IM friends list (which I've been slimming and cleaning through time) with a bunch of people I have no personal relationship with other than reading their tweets? The idea of IM has always been BI-DIRECTIONAL! Twitter IS NOT!

Just my 2¢ on this...

If they only focused on fixing file transfers and improving/adding other features... I'd even pay $20-$30 for Adium if it meant they'd be a bit more focused (facebook? myspace? now twitter?).

Although I would love to have Twitter in Adium, the implementation as described sounds like it would be pretty annoying. Do you really want 100 people you follow to show up in your contacts list, with a new window popping up every time they update?

A better implementation would be to mimic the way the twitter IM bot used to work - everything comes up under a single contact and you have shortcuts to do direct messages and everything.

I'm currently using TwitterIM to get this functionality through Adium: http://itsfrosty.appspot.com/twitter

It's hosted on a windows box and comes through just like any other gtalk buddy. Given the choice between this and the implementation described above, I think I'd rather stick with this.