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title: Install Cawbird Twitter Client on Raspberry Pi using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of Cawbird Twitter Client for on Raspberry Pi
  - Cawbird Twitter Client (Corebird fork)
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/cawbird/raspbian
---

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# Install Cawbird Twitter Client on **Raspberry Pi**

# Cawbird Twitter Client (cawbird)

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[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/cawbird/raspbian#install)

#### Cawbird Twitter Client (Corebird fork)

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:

* Cawbird will update every two minutes
* Cawbird does not get notified of the following, which will be refreshed on
  restart:
  + Unfavourite
  + Follow/Unfollow
  + Block/Unblock
  + Mute/Unmute
  + DM deletion
  + Some list changes

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>

### Package name

* cawbird

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### License

* GPL-3.0+

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### Last updated

* 17 August 2022 - latest/stable
* 25 January 2023 - latest/edge

This snap hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues.

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### Websites

* [github.com/IBBoard/cawbird](https://github.com/IBBoard/cawbird "https://github.com/IBBoard/cawbird")

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### Contact

* [github.com/diddlesnaps/cawbird/issues](https://github.com/diddlesnaps/cawbird/issues "https://github.com/diddlesnaps/cawbird/issues")

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## Enable snaps on Raspberry Pi and install Cawbird Twitter Client

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

On a [Raspberry Pi](https://www.raspberrypi.org/) running the latest version of [Raspbian](https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/) snap can be installed directly from the command line:

```
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
```

You will also need to reboot your device:

```
sudo reboot
```

After this, install the snapd snap in order to get the latest snapd:

```
sudo snap install snapd
```

### Install Cawbird Twitter Client

To install Cawbird Twitter Client, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install cawbird
```

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