Turpial 1.4 Alpha 1 Gets Identi.ca Support

Turpial is a native Linux Twitter - and now Identi.ca too - client.

The latest Turpial from GIT (currently version 1.4 alpha 1) finally adds Identi.ca support - but unfortunately you won't be able to login to both Twitter and Identi.ca in the same time.

There are some other interesting features in Turpial 1.4 alpha 1 such as Twitter Lists support, a refresh button for Replies, Timeline and Direct Messages and also, the notification area now lets you know when you have new tweets:

The latest Turpial 1.4 alpha 1 is available in our unstable PPA (the version in the PPA is named 1.3.3+git20100802 but that's actually 1.4 alpha 1) so you can install it in Ubuntu Karmic, Lucid and Maverick using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install turpial

Remember, this is an alpha version so expect to find some bugs!

Thanks to Ubuntizando El Planeta for the news!

Turpial 1.3.3 Final Released [Native Linux Twitter Client]

After a long period of testing, Turpial (native Linux Twitter client) 1.3.3 has been released, this new version bringing many new features such as: multiple language support (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Traditional Chinese and Taiwanese, French, German, Italian, Norwegian and Russian), proxy support for the Twitter API, spell checker, added support for Yfrog services, img.ly, Mobypicture and twitgoo to upload images, zi.ma, SigueMiLink and ur1.ca short urls, fixed the bug that prevented you to close Turpial from the notification area and many more.

If you've been using Turpial from the development PPA, you already have most of the new features but the final version also comes with many fixes.

Initially version 1.3.2 was released today but because of a bug, the version was bumped to 1.3.3 which comes with a fix.

Turpial 1.3.3 is not yet available in its PPA, but we've uploaded it to the WebUpd8 PPA so you can easily install it using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8 && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install turpial

You can also manually download the .deb file if you don't want to add the WebUpd8 PPA.

Turpial 1.3.2 Beta 2 Released, Finally Fixes The Crash On Exit Bug [Twitter Client For Linux]

Turpial is a great Twitter client for Linux which we covered before. The latest 1.3.2 version finally added English (as well as other languages) but there was a very annoying bug - when you tried to close the application, it froze and the only way to exit Turpial was to kill it via command line.

But this bug was finally fixed in the latest 1.3.2 beta 2 version.

To install Turpial 1.3.2 beta 2, use the following commands (Ubuntu Karmic, Lucid and Maverick):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:effie-jayx/turpial-devel
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install turpial

Turpial Native Linux Twitter Clients Finally Available In English [Ubuntu .deb Download]

Turpial is an amazing native Twitter client for Linux which up until today was only available in Spanish. However, the latest version 1.3.2 alpha 1 finally adds support for English as well as other languages such as Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Italian and so on.


Turpial has all the features you would expect in a Twitter client and more, yet it's very lightweight. Among the Turpial features you'll find options to set the notifications you want to receive, select one of the many url shortening services as well as mute people without them ever knowing.

Turpial also comes with 2 interfaces: compact and wide:

Once thing missing in Turpial is creating custom columns for different searches but hopefully this will be added soon.

Download Turpial 1.3.2 alpha 1

Turpial 1.3.2 alpha 1 is not yet available in its PPA, but I've build some Ubuntu .deb packages for Ubuntu Karmic and Lucid which you can download:

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx: turpial_1.3.2-a1~webupd8~lucid8_all.deb (490.1 KiB)
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala: turpial_1.3.2-a1~webupd8~karmic8_all.deb (494.3 KiB)



You can also download a Fedora .rpm package provided by Fedora-VE (many thanks!).


Update: Turpial now has a development PPA so you can install 1.3.2 alpha 1 from there.

For other Linux distributions, see Turpial's download page (look for GIT instructions to get the latest version).