How to Install Turpial – The GUI Twitter Client for Linux. Turpial is a linux software used to manage your twitter account from your Linux desktop without opening a web browser. This article will guide how to install Turpial, and review about it.
How to Install Turpial – The GUI Twitter Client for Linux
Turpial is a microblogging client for social networks like twitter and statusnet. Turpial is developed under a strict diet in order to consume very few resources, so it is a perfect choice to be used with netbooks, and systems with limited specs.
Turpial also has desktop integration features like notifications, and themes. it includes convenient features like muting users, and url shorteners.
Main Features of Turpial, The Linux Twitter Client
- New backend on top of libturpial
- Rewrite of the whole interface using Qt
- Multiple accounts and multiple columns
- Pre-visualization of images and user avatars
- Messages queue
- Added support for Mac OS (and Windows theoretically)
- Broadcasting messages
- Autologin
- Cleaned and improved overall UI
- Improved user interaction
- Links, mentions and hashtags are clickable
- Enhanced Twitter search
- More services to short URLs and upload pictures
- Improved conversation interface
- Welcome screen
- Restored window geometry at startup
- Available in 11 languages: Catalan, German, Esperanto, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian (Russia) and Turkish
How to Install Turpial in Linux Mint and Ubuntu
For Linux Mint 17.x and Ubuntu 14.04 up you can install Turpial using Terminal by executing these command:
sudo apt-get install turpial
Another way to install Turpial on your linux is by adding PPA, open your Terminal and execute these linux command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:effie-jayx/turpial
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install turpial
Once you have installed Turpial, now you can open Turpial after install by clicking Start/Menu >> Internet >> Turpial
Turpial Review – Twitter Client for Linux
Turpial is the best Twitter client for linux at this time. Some Twitter client are available in command line version. Turpial allow you to updating Tweet, see direct message, and reply your mention easily in linux desktop. Have a try!
One big question: is Turpial support multiple account? YES. Turpial support multiple account of Twitter
