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Add to SafariWhen comparing Turpial vs Polly, the Slant community recommends Polly for most people. In the question“What are the best Twitter clients for Linux?” Polly is ranked 5th while Turpial is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Polly is:
Most clients use notifications only to inform you of the fact that there's a new item that needs your attention, but Polly also includes the item in the notification, allowing you to decide with a glance at the notification if you wish to take action.
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Pros
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.
Pro Notifications include details
Most clients use notifications only to inform you of the fact that there's a new item that needs your attention, but Polly also includes the item in the notification, allowing you to decide with a glance at the notification if you wish to take action.
Cons
Con Out of date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.
Con Out of date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 view full-sized images in within the app
While the app can show previews inline, to show full images, they are opened in a browser instead of being opened within the application.
