Tweet is a desktop client for the Twitter web service. The Twitter web service is described as:

    Twitter is for staying in touch and keeping up with friends no matter
    where you are or what you’re doing. For some friends you might want
    instant mobile updates - for others, you can just check the web. Invite
    your friends to Twitter and decide how connected you want you to be.
    -- from http://twitter.com

In short, is a web-based SMS-like service.

Tweet is a client written to read your friends' status and update your own without using a web browser.

Tweet homepage is available at http://live.gnome.org/Tweet

Tweet depends on:

• GLib >= 2.16
• JSON-GLib >= 0.6
• Clutter >= 0.6.2
• ClutterGtk >= 0.6.1
• ClutterCairo >= 0.6.1
• libsoup >= 2.4.1
• GTK+ >= 2.12

And has a soft requirement on:

• libnm_glib

Tweet is based on, and provides for third parties, a GObject-based library for reading and updating the Twitter status; the library is installed and it is available so that other applications can integrate with it.

Se the INSTALL file.

Main repository is at http://github.com/ebassi/tweet/

You can clone it using

    git clone git://github.com/ebassi/tweet.git

Tweet is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3 or, at your option, any later version.

Twitter-GLib is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 or, at your option, any later version.

Tweet and Twitter-GLib are Copyright (C) 2008 Emmanuele Bassi.