Do I Have to Choose Between Twitter & Identi.ca?
Managing multiple social networks is rarely easy, and almost never fun. I’m always trying to streamline and simplify, and one thing that’s really been eating away at me lately is having to handle two microblogging communities.
I know there are ways to have my tweets show up as dents, and my dents as tweets…cross posting really isn’t the issue. I just hate having to check two websites for @replies, group messages, etc. As of right now, there doesn’t seem to to be a single desktop app for the Linux desktop (or possibly any desktop) that aggregates the two services the way I’d like.
Twirl uses multiple windows, Tweetdeck doesn’t have Identi.ca support, and Friendfeed (a web-based solution) requires me to manually create “virtual users” in order to get updates from Identi.ca peeps that
aren’t members. There seems to be no simple solution. Gwibber would great…if it worked. Seems like it’s been pretty unstable lately, though…lots of crashes, unresponsive windows, losing of tweets.
So what should I do? Give up one of the two communities? I’m not happy with this idea because I love what Identi.ca stands for and I enjoy many relationships I’ve built through it…but Twitter is equally hard to leave because of its ubiquitous presence.
I haven’t decided yet, but I think until a workable desktop application (or a really awesome webapp) comes along, I may have to ditch one or the other.
How would you like the feeds aggregated? I’ve been trying to flesh out a client that’s cross platform for myself for a little bit.
TwitFactory may be right for you, when it comes out on platform you prefer:
http://twitfactory.com/
Not free though :(
have u tried “peoplebrower”? a “browser tool box” managers multiple account from different services. twitter, identi.ca, friendfeed…and lots more. it runs on a browser so…i think it’s compatible with linux. it also has a download version which runs with adobe air…i dont really use linux, dont know if adobe air works on linux.
overall a pretty good app.
here’s a short review: http://normanbauer.info/node/32
and here it is. http://www.peoplebrowsr.com/
good luck.
I’d love to ditch Twitter. The idea of 140characters x 2000 of my updates being trapped on their servers freaks me out.
But none of my ‘real life’ friends have any idea what Identi.ca is–it’d be hard to get them to switch.
Gwibber is the best I’ve been able to do so far–if you find something better (particularly something that works on Windows so I could use it during the day at work), I’d love to hear about it.
@JakeT I’m pretty much in the same boat. I’ll definitely keep you posted.
@JordanR I really like the way Gwibber does it: everything in one “stream,” sorted chronologically, with duplicate posts hidden. Keep us posted on your project!
@kari Thanks for the tip, I will definitely check it out.