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4 Q: Twitter support seems to be disabled. How can I twit via
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5 pidgin-twitter?
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7 A:
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8 Since Twitter's IM gateway bot has been offlined for long time, you
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9 need to setup API based twitter access.
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11 Please make sure that screen name for twitter has been properly
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12 configured, "Get/post statuses via API" has been enabled and the
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13 password has been properly configured.
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15 Pidgin-twitter works as following: it watches all conversations, if a
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16 conversation is initiated with one of the "bot account", it starts to
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17 work. In API based twitter access, pidgin-twitter still use this
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18 machinery. So your account for twitter must have "twitter@twitter.com"
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19 in its buddy list.
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21 To add that, please login gtalk with your account which you want to
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22 use for twitter, then choose "Add buddy" from "Buddies" menu in buddy
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23 list window. "Add buddy" dialog will appear, please add
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24 twitter@twitter.com to your gtalk account there. This buddy need not
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25 appear on the buddy list because it is always offline. You can confirm
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26 that it has been successfully added to the list by checking "show
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27 offline buddies" (Buddies->Show->Offline buddies). I recommend
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28 applying "show when offline" on twitter@twitter.com for convenience.
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