![]() If Twitter isn't your thing, you may be excited to know that IRC integration into Adium is also slated for the same 1.4 release. Right now, there is no official word as to when Adium 1.4 will go final, but according to one of the developers, April is currently the target for a public alpha or beta build. Of course, Adium's tabs carry through all of this, so you won't have multiple windows cluttering your screen real estate. Similarly, direct messages can be done the old fashioned way or by clicking on a user's name inside the Twitter group and then entering your message. Replying to tweets is simple enough with hyperlinks available at the end of each tweet, but you can also just type the usual in the input area. 'Adium/Twitter broken with 1.5.10, but the latest 1.5.11-nightly fixes the problem'. The version numbers of Adium since then have followed a somewhat unusual pattern. ![]() By default, all of the people you follow are placed in a Twitter group in your contact list, but this can be turned off by deactivating the "show social networking contacts" preference. Adium was created by college student Adam Iser, and the first version, 'Adium 1.0', was released in September 2001 and supported only AIM. If you receive a direct message, a new window will pop up, letting you continue the private conversation there. Twitter support has been good enough for quite a few people (including many current and former Adium developers) to keep it in Adium. Aside from some bug fixes, it hasn’t seen many changes since. You can set how often Twitter is polled for updates, and the window will only pop up if someone you are following updates his or her status. Adium support for Twitter was initially added in version 1.4, released in 2010. An input box sits at the bottom along with a character counter. Advertisementīasically, your Twitter timeline is displayed in a group chat window using your default message style. After reading the blog post and talking to some of the developers, though, I think it has the potential to replace other standalone Twitter clients on the Mac. I was a bit worried at first, however, because Twitter integration would be very easy to do badly in Adium. I have been clamoring for a Twitter client for Mac OS X that uses Webkit for some time now (Gwibber uses it on the Linux side of things), and this just may offer the solution. In a recent blog post, the Adium developers announced that version 1.4 has the potential to make some users very happy with the integration of Twitter support. While it currently lacks voice and video chat and some complain that the file transfer functionality is hit or miss, its flexibility, meta contacts, and plethora of supported services outweigh any shortfalls it may have. The multi-protocol instant messaging client is full of customization options that, in my opinion, make it superior to iChat. One of the first Mac apps I install whenever I get my hands on a new computer is Adium. Adium is an open source and free instant messaging application for macOS that can connect to XMPP (Jabber), IRC and more.
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