Twirssi is a Twitter/identi.ca plugin for irssi. Installation is pretty simple, but I've put a Gentoo package in my overlay in case you're picky about one-off installations or don't want to track down all those dependencies by hand.
Usage is also nice and simple. Here's an extract of the full docs:
- Load the script:
/script load twirssi.pl - Log in to twitter:
/twitter_login <username> - Post:
/tweet <status> - Follow:
/twitter_follow [-w] <username>(with-w, send their tweets to a window of the same name) - Unfollow:
/twitter_unfollow <username> - Search:
/twitter_search <keyword> - Subscribe:
/twitter_subscribe [-w] <keyword>(-wsame as for/twitter_follow) - Unsubscribe:
/twitter_unsubscribe <keyword>
Subscriptions are basically repeated searches. For example, if you wanted continuous updates on posts about twirssi, you would use:
/twitter_subscribe #twirssi
Twirssi saves your current settings (follows, subscriptions, window
names, etc.) in ~/.irssi/scripts/twirssi.*.
You can direct a public tweet towards a user by including
@<username> in your tweet text. You can also tag the tweet so that
others can search for it with #keyword.
There is currently no way to list users that you are following
(a.k.a. your friends) or your followers. Here's an excerpt from
#twirssi on irc.foonetic.net.
--- Log opened Mon Feb 20 10:13:06 2012
10:13 < wking> is there a way to list users you are following (aka friends?) in twirssi?
10:15 <&Gedge> oh, just replied to your(?) tweet
10:16 < wking> ah, thanks. Sorry for reposting ;)
10:17 <&Gedge> Not really (/twirssi_dump is debugging so doesn't count). Perhaps #twirssi needs "/twitter_friends" to list friends.