Just figured out how to get Twitter update the pidgin status (e.g. GTalk, Jabber, ICQ, MSN, etc.). For that, you need to install a pidgin plug-in written in Perl. Here is a small howto about it (as the Perl stuff was a bit tricky):
), install Active Perl version 5.8.8.X. Don’t take the last one, the 5.10.0, as Pidgin does not support it yet.Tags: twitter pidgin gtalk
I’m surprised that it was so easy for you. When I tried it I ran into problems with library locations, Perl versions, etc.
Gah, URL got stripped.
http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/2008-05-14_Pidgin_and_Twitter
In fact I did too. I tried first with Vanilla Perl. Did not work. Then with the last version of Active Perl (5.10.0). Perl still wasn’t recognized.
That’s cool that it works with version 5.8.8. Should be documented somewhere.
I ran into some issues, but now that 5.8.8.824 is installed, and XML-XPath is installed, Pidgin is still reporting Perl as disabled. Pidgin 2.5.1 if that matters.
I figured it out, thanks to http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-twitter-profile/wiki/HowToInstall
Key here was this bit: You should install version 5.10 (x86) unless you have a Pidgin version less than 2.5.0 and are on Windows: then you should install Perl 5.8 (x86). It is important that you install the x86 (32-bit) version because the x64 (64-bit) version will not work with Pidgin, which is 32-bit.
Since I was on Pidgin 2.5.1, I had to have Perl 5.10.