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Well, I can't really say that it's the

first

conky twitter client. Any twitterclient from cli should be able to work. But I can say that this is somethingthat I am very proud of it because I MADE IT!!!Anywho, this is it. In order to get this on your sexy conky configuration, you are going tohave to jump through some hoops. So bear with me.First up is to install python-twitter.sudo apt-get install python-twitterNow that wasn't so bad was it?Now we are going to have to edit your conky configuration.put "text_buffer_size 10000" (no quotes) into your ~.conkyrc file. Thisallows conky to display more text than normally. Make sure that it goes

before

TEXT.now download the script, or copy and paste for your enjoyment.

'''This piece o' junk hack of python and twitter was created byTravis Moore (@travist120). Some 17 year old kid who decided that hewas severely bored one day and decided to create this instead of doinghis Essay and french homework.''''''Oh, and the licence. I have to make sure that those who copy willgive back.''''''This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modifyit under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published bythe Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or(at your option) any later version.This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty ofMERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See theGNU General Public License for more details.You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public Licensealong with this program. If not, see<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.'''for s in status:i = i+1print s.user.name, "(@"+s.user.screen_name+")"print s.textprintimport os