Adium 1.4 beta brings Twitter, IRC functionality
It’s a banner day for the Adium development team as they have not only released a maintenance update of their popular multiprotocol Internet messaging client, but also a public beta with Internet relay chat (IRC) and Twitter functionality baked right in.
Zac West, Evan Schoenberg and Eric Richie – the driving forces behind Adium, and friends – have announced the release of Adium 1.3.4 (change notes) and Adium 1.4 beta (release notes). Although previously available to Adium users in limited form via the MGTwitterEngine add-on, this public beta is the first with true Twitter integration, which finally puts the popular 140-character Web 2.0 messaging system wear it belongs—right next to all of the other IM channels. Zac West says:
I’m terribly eager to announce the first of our series of betas for Adium 1.4, which features two new protocols, IRC and Twitter, as well as a ridiculously long list of improvements, including the latest and greatest in the world of libpurple.
See also: Adium to gain Twitter functionality
As noted, Adium 1.4 beta offers a wide range of other features and fixes, including support for contacts in multiple groups and all-new authorizations window (which pulls together all authorization requests into one window), for example.
Get your Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard needy copy of Adium 1.4 beta here (23.4MB) and don’t forget to report any bugs, boys n’ girls.
So, is Adium 1.4 beta with Twitter the “end all, be all” IM client for you?
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May 18th, 2009
Too bad that they’re now supporting only Leopard =/