Since I started to use Twitter I feel some insatisfaction with the available desktop clients. The balance of pros an cons of each desktop client always tended towards the negative side, which made me continue to use the web interface... until yesterday. Yesterday I met Gwibber.

Gwibber is powered by python and webkit, so far supports brightkite, digg, facebook, flickr, identica, jaiku, laconica, pingfm, pownce, rss and twitter.

Take a look at the default theme:

I like to hack and customize things to work the way I like most. The simplicity of Gwibber's internals are like 'hack me, please'. Gwibber delegates all the boring tasks to webkit+html+css+js, so there is no complex and boring python code to render messages and support themes. If an user wants to create a new theme, he just needs to edit html+css, couldnt be easier. Creating a new plugin to support a new microblogging site/service is also trivial.

Try it yourself: http://launchpad.net/gwibber