Mirco Bauer has announced the new version of his GPL IRC Client called Smuxi. The version with the Codename ‘Bianca’ has four new major features included.
Mirco described the features by the following:
Initial support for Twitter has been implemented. This will allow you to send and receive tweets to the Twitter microblogging service. It supports the friends timeline, replies view, and direct messages. The character counter, Reply-To feature, and avatar support will follow in later releases.Smuxi is now able to flawlessly handle network connections with high latency which are common with UMTS, WLAN, and busy DSL and cable lines. All communication between the Smuxi frontend and the Smuxi server is now done as a background task using threads. This gives Smuxi a very responsive feel – just like a normal, locally running application – even with difficult network conditions
The IRC experience has been significantly improved. Smuxi will now send all unrecognized commands transparently to the IRC server and will show the reply directly to the user. In addition, the userlist and query menu have been extended to include common CTCP actions.
Smuxi now ensures that the text colors used in the tabs are easily readable, regardless of your GTK theme. It does this by using the proven-reliable color-contrast algorithm used by Smuxi 0.6.4.1 to generate nick colors.
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My collegue Mirco ‘meebey’ Bauer has announced that Smuxi has a cool new feature. He has integrated Twitter.
With the next Smuxi release you will be able to receive and send tweets from/to Twitter. For those who don’t know yet what Twitter is, it’s a micro-blogging tool which I integrated in this blog a few days ago. You can use Twitter from several applications. Smuxi supports the friends timeline, replies view and direct messages. Check out this screenshot which shows this feature in action.
Meebey is planning to add avatar and reply-mode support at some point later.
I’m looking forward to see what’s new in Smuxi. I’ll keep you posted.
You also can follow me at twitter: http://twitter.com/ikkerus
Take a look at meebey’s original post here
A few days ago, I chose Tweetable as my most favourable Twitter plugin for wordpress. The installation was easy using the plugin install in the backend. Then you just have to create a twitter account, create a new twitter-connecting application to get your unique API-Keys. The plugin helps you to get through the integration process.
Tweetable is a WordPress Plugin intended to help integrate Twitter into your blog. It can tweet your blog posts as they are published, shortening the URLs with either Tr.im, Is.gd (or other URL shorters) and optionally including Google Analytics campaign tags. You can display your latest tweet(s) in your blog sidebar with a customizable widget, which can even display your follower count.
Tweetable adds functions that turn the WordPress admin into a twitter client. The Tweet screen lets you update your status and browse your friends’. The Track page let’s you save keywords to be searched so you can keep an eye on what Twitter as a whole is saying about a given topic. You can set the minimum user level required to access the menus if you would like to allow other authors access.
Hello out there,
yesterday I registered myself at twitter.com and made my new own design. There are a few tweets out and I hope you can follow me. Twitter is a microblog-plattform where you can “tweet” sending short messages with a maximum capable number of characters (140).
So I would be pleased if you follow me. Everything will be allright then. 
