Chirp!

A lightweight but modern Twitter client, written in Go & QML.

Features

Live feed via Twitter's Streaming API
Multi pane support
Linux/macOS/Windows (Android & iOS should be working, but aren't tested yet)
Media previews
Multiple Twitter accounts (work-in-progress)
System notifications
Shortened URL resolving
Support for other networks (like Mastodon/GNU social or even GitHub)

Installation

Make sure you have a working Go environment. See the install instructions.

Dependencies

Before you can build Chirp you need to install the Go/Qt bindings.

Building Chirp!

git clone https://github.com/muesli/chirp.git
qtdeploy build desktop chirp/

Run it

./chirp/deploy/linux/chirp

Config

As of now you will need to create your own Twitter app & key to use Chirp. You can do this on https://dev.twitter.com/. When you run Chirp for the first time, it will create an empty config file chirp.conf for you. Just edit it and enter your consumer key and accesstoken.

Development

API docs can be found here.

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