1.gTwitter (download)
gTwitter is a Twitter client built using the Mono libraries. If it is not in your distribution’s application repository, then it can be downloaded as either source, or a Mono binary from the project website. In order to run or compile gTwitter, you need to have the mono libraries installed. Refer to your distribution’s documentation for how to do this. On Ubuntu, installing the needed libraries was automatic as part of the ‘apt-get install gtwitter’ process. On systems that use Yum, the process should be similarly automated.
2. Twitux (download)
Twitux is a Twitter client for the Gnome desktop. The program features include view public, friends and mine timeline, send message, automatic login, add friend and system tray icon.
sudo
apt-get build-dep twitux
sudo apt-get install libsoup2.4-dev
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/twitux/twitux-0.62.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf twitux-0.62.tar.bz2
cd twitux-0.62/
./configure
make
sudo make install
3. Spaz (download)
Spaz is a Twitter client for users who value free, open-source software, attractive design, and customizability. It is built entirely in XHTML and Javascript and can be styled using a custom CSS styling file. It is built on the Adobe AIR framework so to install it all you need to have is Adobe AIR on Ubuntu.
4.TweetDeck (download)
TweetDeck is an Adobe AIR desktop Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace application. Like other Twitter applications it interfaces with the Twitter API to allow users to send and receive tweets and view profiles. It is the most popular Twitter application with a 19% market share as of June 2009, following only the official Twitter.com website with 45.70% share for posting new status updates.
5.DestroyTwitter (download)
DestroyTwitter is a compact though robust Twitter application built to run on Mac, Windows, and Linux using Adobe AIR. It consists of a series of canvases that constantly update to keep tweets up-to-date using notifications that appear when a new tweet arrives. DestroyTwitter uses a minimal amount of memory compared to its AIR-based alternatives without sacrificing functionality and performance. As a result, it can easily run in the background as an automated process.
PS: Since some of the titter clients mentioned here uses Adobe Air, you may want to install Adobe air first. For installing Adobe Air, First Download it from Here. Or get it from the Adobe website Adobe.com. After downloading, copy it to your home folder and rename it as AdobeAIRInstaller.bin. Now goto any terminal in your system and then type in
chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
now type
./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
Now Adobe Air is installed in your system. You may need to use SUDO or execute it as root for the installation.
