I have been using twitter. You I know its perhaps sad, but I have started a bit on that road. I have been using the application choqok in Linux to post on my twitter page.
But the last 2 or 3 weeks I have seen a Auth popup asking for my twitter api key/password. And as I didn’t know what this was I did not fill in any information.
Last week I had some spare time and started to look into this.
First I was a bit worried that I had gotten hacked, or that my Twitter Account was. But after googeling abit about this it seems that twitter has changed the way the it authenticate applications wanting to connect to twitter to post or read tweets. FOr the weeks leeding up to 1/9 2010 they did limit the access to the old way to 5 an hour i think it was and after 1/9 it was totally stop for the old way. You had to start using the new QOAuth way.
So what happened was that choqok was trying to connect more than 5 times and got the reject back and aked me for a new passord.
So I was NOT hacked – hurray. That’s good at-least.
But the bad part was that I now did not have an application that worked. Well I could still connect to the twitter website and post there but that was not what I wanted.
So I started to look for solutions.
First there is a new version of choqok out – not in the repositories so I have to build it from source, but that might work. Download it. Installed cmake as it requires that and then failed on that it did require QOAuth lib and QJson libs that I did not have. OK Skip this for now.
Checked other applications. They did not work, was not available for my ubuntu/kubuntu version or was not able to compile it. Some even crashed for some reason. No luck at all.
So now I have been without a microbloggning client for a while.
But today I came across one that I havent tried before. And that was qTwitter. Its kind of small and does what I want.
I did found it here, and at the bottom of the page you have a link to the ubuntu .deb packages, including the qoath library package.
So now I can do twitter again 🙂