{"id":12052,"date":"2010-07-28T10:46:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T09:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/buzzbird-a-free-open-source-twitter-client\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:12:05","slug":"buzzbird-a-free-open-source-twitter-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/buzzbird-a-free-open-source-twitter-client\/","title":{"rendered":"Buzzbird &#8211; a free, open source Twitter client"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve rounded up the best Twitter clients for Windows <a title=\"The best Twitter clients for Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/the-best-twitter-clients-for-windows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">before<\/a>, but a new contender has recently come to our attention. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/buzzbird.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buzzbird<\/a><\/strong> has a lot going for it. Not only is the little app free, it&#8217;s also open source and that&#8217;s an attitude we like!<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be a bit of a theme linking the main desktop Twitter clients &#8211; they&#8217;re either heavy on resources or AIR-based applications. Personally, I like AIR apps, but lots of people don&#8217;t. If you want something light, but AIR free, take a look at Buzzbird. It&#8217;s not much of a hottie in comparison to slicker cousins like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tweetdeck.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TweetDeck<\/a><\/strong>, but it&#8217;s light as a feather and can do everything its rivals can.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/07\/image2.png\" alt=\"image2.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All the Buzzbird action happens in the main interface. You manage individual tweets by mousing over and you&#8217;ll see the options appear. Clicking the little triangle at the right of <strong>Showing all tweets<\/strong> will give you access to your direct messages and mentions. The options menu, under <strong>Tools<\/strong>, also hides some nice features &#8211; you can toggle the format you want for your retweets (<strong>RT@username<\/strong> or <strong>via @username<\/strong>) as well as deciding whether retweets are automatic or not. You can also specify if clicking a hashtag brings you hashtags.org or Twitter search, specify which URL shortener to use and even pick what appears in the title of the interface window.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately &#8211; and this is a BIG unfortunately &#8211; this Twitter client can&#8217;t be minimized to the system tray. If the developer is listening, we&#8217;ll be stoked if version 0.8 does! Even so, Buzzbird still gets a thumbs up from us for users who want an AIR-free desktop client. Download it <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/buzzbird.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Also available for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/buzzbird.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mac<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve rounded up the best Twitter clients for Windows before, but a new contender has recently come to our attention. Buzzbird has a lot going for it. Not only is the little app free, it&#8217;s also open source and that&#8217;s an attitude we like! There seems to be a bit of a theme linking the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/buzzbird-a-free-open-source-twitter-client\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Buzzbird &#8211; a free, open source Twitter client&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2358],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-12052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiontwitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2022"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340627,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12052\/revisions\/340627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12052"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=12052"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=12052"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=12052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}