Twitter has become a part of daily life. Since twitter allows only 140 characters of a status update, its like an SMS being sent to all of your friends to tell them what you're doing now. This can be done using many ways on your cell phone, laptop and desktop. Tweeting is fun and you can find new stuff easily just by following people and lists. So here, I'm listing some twitter clients for Linux users who often give up after not being able to find a good twitter client and revert to using some browser addon like Echofon which sucks.

ChoqoK

Choqok is an awesome twitter client for KDE users. You can have it even on GNOME or some other desktop environment by instaling just the required libraries. Even I use it. It may support your local language too. Since it is written in Qt and C++ its quite fast too. It has support for tweeting images through twitpic and it can also shorten URLs using some services on paste in the status update box if the length of the URL is greater than 30 characters. It even supports other twitter like services- identi.ca and laconia. There's just a small problem with it- if you open it immediately after it has retrieved the tweets, it may consume a lot of CPU and appear to freeze your system. So give some time after it has fetched all the tweets and then launch it.

Choqok

For more information see http://choqok.gnufolks.org

Tweetdeck

Tweetdeck is a desktop environment independent twitter, facebook, myspace and linkedin client. No just don't go by the list of accounts it supports. It is an adobe-air based client and eats a lot of memory. So if you are low on RAM do not dare to use it. Also, if you do a super fast scroll using your mouse scroller its display may get distorted at times and needs to be restarted. So in my opinion it sucks.

Tweetdeck

For more information see http://www.tweetdeck.com

Twitux

This is also a good twitter client for GNOME; the same goes for other desktop environment users as in Choqok - install the minimal required libraries, but the only difference between this and choqok is tabs. Choqok displays all the timelines in tabs, here you have to choose the timeline in a menu

Twitux

For more information see http://live.gnome.org/DanielMorales/Twitux

Twitgin

I have already written about it, read it at http://www.itech7.com/Social-Networking/Tweeting-through-pidgin

The trouble with Twitgin is the tweets come as IMs, so if you are following too many people and/or have people who tweet too much then you're going to get irritated. It shows every tweet as an IM. It will be even more irritating if you have enabled libnotify or knotify notification plugins and for the same reason I stopped using it. Also, it doesn't support other timelines except the main one. So you're likely not to get the Direct Messages and Lists' tweets.

Other twitter clients are browser based like Echofon for Mozilla Firefox and Chromed Bird for Google Chrome / Chromium.