Cawbird Twitter Client

By Lucy Llewellyn Star developer

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Version1.5
Revision803
Size85.7 MB
LicenseGPL-3.0+
Confinementstrict
Basecore20
CategoriesSocial

Cawbird Twitter Client (Corebird fork)

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Cawbird is a modern and lightweight Twitter client for the GNOME 3 desktop. It
features inline image and video preview, creation of lists and favorites,
filtering of tweets and full text search. Cawbird is able to manage multiple
Twitter accounts.

Cawbird is a fork of Corebird, which became unsupported after Twitter disabled
the streaming API. Cawbird works with the new APIs and includes a few fixes
and modifications that have historically been patched in to IBBoard's custom
Corebird build on his personal Open Build Service account[1].

Due to changes in the Twitter API[2], Cawbird has the following limitations:

- Cawbird will update every two minutes
- Cawbird does not get notified of the following, which will be refreshed on
restart:
 - Unfavourite
 - Follow/Unfollow
 - Block/Unblock
 - Mute/Unmute
 - DM deletion
 - Some list changes


All limitations are limitations imposed by Twitter and are not the fault of the
Cawbird client.

[1]: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:IBBoard:desktop
[2]: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/accounts-and-users/subscribe-account-activity/migration/introduction

Update History

1.5 (803)
13 Dec 2025, 09:47 UTC

Published9 Oct 2019, 04:51 UTC

Last updated24 Jul 2022, 06:24 UTC

First seen13 Dec 2025, 09:47 UTC