Installing & using Twirssi (irssi twitter client)

Twirssi allows you to post to Twitter from as well as:

    * Read your friend feed, and your replies (from people on and not on your feed).
    * Receive and send direct messages (DMs)
    * Use multiple accounts - follow, read and send
    * See the context when your friends reply to users you aren't following

Before installing you'll need irssi (duh), Net::Twitter and WWW::Shorten::TinyURL.

Installing Irssi
Pretty simple:

sudo apt-get install irssi

I won't go into details on using irssi, but this guide should get ya goin' if you've never used it before.

Installing Net::Twitter

Open up a terminal and run

sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell

If it's your first time using cpan it'll ask you a few questions about configuring it.  I just typed yes on the first question to let it configure itself, you can do whatever you'd like.

Once it's done loading you should see a cpan[1]>
Type the following: (each one being a seperate command)

reload index
install Net::Twitter
 (I recommend typing yes to all the questions of installing other/required modules)

Installing WWW::Shorten::TinyURL
While still in CPan type:

install WWW::Shorten::TinyURL

This will shorten any url you give it before it tweets, so there's no command you need to use.

Installing Twirssi
Download the script: http://twirssi.com/twirssi.pl

Put it in either ~/.irssi/scripts or ~/.irssi/scripts/autorun.  It should be easy to see what the difference is, but if not, scripts in /autorun load when irssi starts.

& setting it up
Open a terminal and type the following:

irssi
/window new hidden
/window name twitter
/script load ~/.irssi/scripts/autorun/twissir.pl (or wherever you put it)

Twirssi should come up in the newly created twitter window.  To have that window come up each time (allowing twirssi to autostart), type /layout save  (note that this saves the layout of every window, so be sure to close private messages and unwanted channels first).

To login     -    /twitter_login username password
To tweet    -    /tweet yourstatus
To reply     -    /twitter_reply username:num

To set an account to automatically login type:
/twitter_usernames username
/twitter_passwords password

You can see a full list of the commands here

Edit; forgot a screenshot!

Hope this helps somebody.

Last edited by dannytatom (2009-01-10 23:32:29)