Just in case if you don’t know by now, Twhirl is an Adobe AIR app which could be used as a desktop client for multiple, insanely-popular microblogging services. It now supports Twitter, FriendFeed, Pownce & Jaiku. And it is to support identi.ca soon, real soon i.e. with their next update or so. NOW SUPPORTS identi.ca
Know Identi.ca ? 
It could be called as a Twitter-clone with a stated difference - “Unless otherwise specified, contents are copyright by the contributors and available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 . ” That’s it. You now holds a CreativeCommons license for every update you post there. It’s powered by laconi.ca - an Open Source Microblogging Platform. The whole thing is just 18 days old (as of the time of writing this post) and have already implemented a Twitter compatible API, and now it gets supported by a major desktop client - twhirl, which led people say; “Identi.ca/ Laconi.ca moving at the speed of light”. Impressive, isn’t it?
The latest stable version of Twhirl (0.8.4) supports identi.ca. Get It Here
- How It Works?
It work on the basis of “push-updates”. i.e. “Twhirl doesn’t have to constantly connect and disconnect with the identi.ca servers. Rather, the client (Twhirl user) gets the updates from his Google Talk ID, which is set up for notifications, on your identi.ca profile settings.”
You’ll have to enter the account details of both your Identi.ca account and Google Talk account.Simply Put, Identi.ca pushes to GTalk (a Jabber client based on XMPP) which pushes it to Twhirl
More details about this could be found here & here. Other sources which are not mentioned elsewhere: Duncan Riley’s Notice at Identi.ca.
**JOIN ME ON IDENTI.CA
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
