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Twitter on Lynx?March 13th, 2009

@billt tweeted an interesting thought about using Lynx as a Twitter client.

Lynx is a text-only web browser that can be easily run from a command line. There’s a version installed on a web hosting account I used so I tried it out and… disaster.

Admittedly, there’s something a little odd going on with my version of Lynx, but even so, I couldn’t log in and the actual display was hard to use. You’d think that a text-based browser for a primarily text-based service would be great, but I didn’t think so.

I tried to access the mobile version of Twitter, too, but that just tried to get me to download something, which was most odd.

No, it’s desktop clients, iPhone clients or the plain old web site in Firefox or Safari for me.

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One Response to “Twitter on Lynx?”

  1. Keith Bowes Says:
    February 18th, 2011 at 4:47 am

    I use Lynx often. It only works in Facebook Mobile, which has several limitations. For my daily reading, I use TTYtter.

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