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when API based access is enabled.

4.1.2 Get/post statuses via API

Since Pidgin is an instant message client, it is natural that Pidgin
uses XMPP protocol to access to Twitter. However, Twitter has suspended
their IM gateway for long time, for maintenance reason. So we had
decided to provide the other way to access to Twitter using Twitter's
public API.

If you enable this feature, pidgin-twitter gets your timeline and puts
your update via Twitter API.

4.1.3 Password

4.2.2 Translate sender name to link

This checkbox toggles translation from a sender name to the link to
the sender.

4.2.3 Translate channel name to link

This checkbox toggles translation from a channel name to the link to
the channel. This feature is available only for Wassr.

4.3 Filter page

4.3.1 Apply filter

4.4.2 Icon size

Icon size in conversations can be specified by this spin button.

4.4.3 Enable update

This checkbox toggles update for icons by the specified period. See
below for the period.

4.4.4 Update period

You can specify update period here in two ways. The first is the
number of times showing one particular icon before update. The second
is days before update.

4.5 Sound page

character. Each service has its own limit of length for posting
messages; 140 characters in Twitter, 255 characters in Wassr and 140
bytes in identi.ca. If the composing message exceeds the limit, the
displayed number will turn red to notify you the excess.

4.6.2 Escape pseudo command for Twitter

This checkbox toggles escape pseudo command functionality.

A pseudo command is a message composed of leading non Latin string and
trailing an alphabet letter which can be interpreted as a command in

hard limit in internal representation of characters so that the
messages which does not exceed 140 letters can actually be
accepted. This feature will silently discard *false* oops message in
this situation.

4.6.4 Do not notify incoming message (Windows only)

This checkbox toggles suppression of blinking Pidgin's task bar button
for new incoming message when Pidgin window is not active.

4.6.5 Output log message

This checkbox toggles log messages for debugging. If you have any
trouble, we suggest to enable this feature and report us your problem
with obtained information.

- Filter functionality has been added.
- Translation from tag name to the link to the tag in identi.ca
  has been added.
- Many improvements and bug fixes.

0.8.0 (October 25 2008)
- jisko support has been added.
- Fixed a breakage of playing sound for the recipients.


6. Acknowledgments

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when API based access is enabled.

4.1.2 Get/post statuses via API

Since Pidgin is an instant message client, it is natural that Pidgin
uses XMPP protocol to access to Twitter. However, Twitter has
suspended their IM gateway for long time, for scalability issues. So
we had decided to provide the other way to access to Twitter using
Twitter's public API.

If you enable this feature, pidgin-twitter gets your timeline and puts
your update via Twitter API.

4.1.3 Password

4.2.2 Translate sender name to link

This checkbox toggles translation from a sender name to the link to
the sender.

4.2.3 Translate #channel/tag to link

This checkbox toggles translation from channel/tag name which begins
with '#' to respective links. This feature is available for Wassr or
identi.ca.

4.3 Filter page

4.3.1 Apply filter

4.4.2 Icon size

Icon size in conversations can be specified by this spin button.

4.4.3 Enable icon update

This checkbox toggles update for icons by the specified period. See
below for the update interval.

4.4.4 Update interval

You can specify update interval here in two ways. The first is the
number of times showing one particular icon before update. The second
is days before update.

4.5 Sound page

character. Each service has its own limit of length for posting
messages; 140 characters in Twitter, 255 characters in Wassr and 140
bytes in identi.ca. If the composing message exceeds the limit, the
displayed number will turn red to notify you the excess.

4.6.2 Escape pseudo command for twitter

This checkbox toggles escape pseudo command functionality.

A pseudo command is a message composed of leading non Latin string and
trailing an alphabet letter which can be interpreted as a command in

hard limit in internal representation of characters so that the
messages which does not exceed 140 letters can actually be
accepted. This feature will silently discard *false* oops message in
this situation.

4.6.4 Strip excessive newline characters

A message from feed bot may contain excessive number of newline
characters. It sometimes annoys messenger users by taking huge space
in the message window.

If this feature is enabled, pidgin-twitter automatically strips
consecutive newline characters and replaces them with single newline
character.

4.6.5 Do not notify incoming message (Windows only)

This checkbox toggles suppression of blinking Pidgin's task bar button
for new incoming message when Pidgin window is not active.

4.6.6 Enable log output

This checkbox toggles log messages for debugging. If you have any
trouble, we suggest to enable this feature and report us your problem
with obtained information.

- Filter functionality has been added.
- Translation from tag name to the link to the tag in identi.ca
  has been added.
- Many improvements and bug fixes.

0.8.0 (October 27 2008)
- jisko support has been added.
- Strip excessive newline feature has been added.
- Fixed a breakage of playing sound for the recipients.


6. Acknowledgments