I wouldn’t say that I’m addicted to my Twitter account, nor would I say that I can quit any time I want. After all, it’s one of the best tools available to me for staying in touch with friends whether I’m in front of a computer screen or out-and-about, so until something genuinely better comes along (or it gets bought out by some corporate behemoth and subsequently trashed) I’ll be sticking with Twitter for the time being.

Yes, I’ve heard of the telephone. I just don’t like talking on the damned things.

Anyway. Short of refreshing the Twitter webpage every few minutes, and since the IM integration has gone the way of the dodo bird, a desktop application seems like a useful way to manage one’s Twitter interactions. I’m a big, big fan so far of Twhirl… and now, thanks to these instructions, I can run Twhirl under Kubuntu (the current Linux installation on my laptop).

I suppose that I’ll miss seeing the Fail Whale…

No, on second thought, I won’t.