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Add to SafariWhen comparing Polly vs oysttyer, the Slant community recommends Polly for most people. In the question“What are the best Twitter clients for Linux?” Polly is ranked 5th while oysttyer is ranked 7th. 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 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.
Pro automation
since it is a command-line tool, it can be used for automation. This is great!
Pro Filters promoted tweets
Promoted tweets are not included in the feed.
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Con Out of date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 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.
Con No GUI
oysttyer is a command-line only tool.
Con Doesn't support Unicode
Tweets in scripts other than Latin appear encoded; unreadable.
Con Out of date
More than two years since the last code commit, this app will fail when Twitter changes their API.
