Cawbird is a modern and lightweight Twitter client for the GNOME 3 desktop. It features inline image and video preview, creation of lists and favorites, filtering of tweets and full text search. Cawbird is able to manage multiple Twitter accounts.
Cawbird is a fork of Corebird, which became unsupported after Twitter disabled the streaming API. Cawbird works with the new APIs and includes a few fixes and modifications that have historically been patched in to IBBoard's custom Corebird build on his personal Open Build Service account[1].
Due to changes in the Twitter API[2], Cawbird has the following limitations:
All limitations are limitations imposed by Twitter and are not the fault of the Cawbird client.
[1]: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:IBBoard:desktop [2]: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/accounts-and-users/subscribe-account-activity/migration/introduction
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