turses
A Twitter client for the console.
A session with multiple columns running on urxvt:
The goal of the project is to build a full-featured, lightweight, and extremely configurable Twitter client.
Documentation
The documentation for turses is available on ReadTheDocs.
Take a look at this screencast for an
overview of the features of turses and its usage.
Installation
If you downloaded the source code
$ python setup.py install
With pip
$ pip install turses
or (but consider using pip):
$ easy_install turses
Features
- Multiple timelines (buffers)
- Multi-column
- Tweet, Reply, Retweet, Delete tweet
- Follow/Unfollow
- Favorite/Unfavorite
- Direct Messages
- Open URLs in browser
- Thread view
- Unread count
- Search
- View any user's tweets
- Fully customizable
- Multiple accounts
Development
The code is hosted on a git repo.
A list of tasks can be found on the on the issue tracker. Feel free to submit issues, feature requests or participate in ongoing discussions.
If you feel hackish, reading the dev docs is recommended.
CONTRIBUTING.md contains instructions on how to contribute code.
Roadmap
- Lists
- Streaming
- Notifications
License
turses is licensed under a GPLv3 license, see LICENSE for details.
Authors
turses is based on Tyrs by Nicolas Paris.
See AUTHORS for a full list of contributors.

