Gwibber, an open source microblogging app for Gnome has now reached version 2.0!
Although at 2.0, the developers are not considering this a stable release yet and not making it available on the stable distribution channels. What I could notice first from the upgrade was the UI from:
to

Which means:

it is now easier to jump between different [...]

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The eco-system around Pidgin is fantastic, below is yet another cool plug-in tip for it.
Pidgin-Twitter plug-in works with Linux and Windows for you to get back into posting to and receiving notes from Twitter (also works well with Identi.ca too!). Steps to get it working:

download and install the plug-in the plug-in;
go to Pidgin menu under [...]

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