When comparing KDE plasmoid twitter client vs Turpial, the Slant community recommends KDE plasmoid twitter client for most people. In the question“What are the best Twitter clients for Linux?” KDE plasmoid twitter client is ranked 2nd while Turpial is ranked 6th.
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Pros
Pro Integrated into KDE Plasma
Pro Works really great
Pro Tweets, Notifications, Messages
Pro Only Twitter client for KDE
Pro Simplicity
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 Unmaintained
The last commit to the project was in 2016.
Con Out of date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.