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Smile.Hunter
Asked: 2012-04-13 05:29:44 +0800 CST

Can anyone recommend twitter client that support sock5 proxy?

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I have already tried gwibber,twitux, destroy twitter,smuxi,gtwitter,choqok,qwit and hotot.

only hotot could configured sock5 proxy but not all traffic over sock5 (I captured packets using wireshark and I found images link not be included.)

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  1. Best Answer

    All programs can use sock5 if you use tsocks. They don't even have to know they're doing it.

    Install tsocks, configure /etc/tsocks.conf, start up your socks tunnel, or whatever, and then launch your favourite client like this:

    tsocks gwibber
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  2. You can try Polly. I believe it supports SOCK5 proxy from what I can see from the preferences but I haven't tried it personally.

    To install Polly, you need to add the PPA. You can try the following commands in a terminal to install Polly. 

    sudo apt-add-repository ppa:conscioususer/polly-unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install polly

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    Relevant link:

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