When comparing Choqok vs Turpial, the Slant community recommends Choqok for most people. In the question“What are the best Twitter clients for Linux?” Choqok is ranked 3rd while Turpial is ranked 6th.
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Pros
Pro Plugins that extend functionality are available
Pro Highly customizable
Custom keybindings, color schemes, etc. Even the plugins are customizable.
Pro Unfurls long URLs
Shows non-shortened URLs on hover so you can check if you feel safe visiting the URL before clicking it.
Pro Highly configurable
Turpial offers a plethora of confugration options. Within settings you can customize notifications, services, what happens on startup, how filters behave, the integration with the web browser, how to set up an API proxy, etc. And all of those categories of options go into great detail. For example, you can set the refreshrate on a per-column basis.
Cons
Con Out of date
More than two years since the last code commit, this app will fail when Twitter changes their API.
Con No multi-column layout option
You can just see one feed at a time. No way to set up side-by-side feeds.
Con Feels out of place on non-KDE systems
As a KDE application, it doesn't look right on desktop environments other than KDE, such as Gnome, that's used by Ubuntu's Unity.
Con Requires the KDE framework
Con Out of date
More than two years since the last code commit, this app will fail when Twitter changes their API.
Con Can't display inline images
Images are embedded.