Messer vs rainbowstream

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Messer		rainbowstream
	Project
1	Mentions	6
445	Stars	3,529
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
JavaScript	Language	Python
ISC License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Messer

Posts with mentions or reviews of Messer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-20.

How to be social in the terminal
10 projects | dev.to | 20 Apr 2021

Messer I had some issues logging in with Messer, so I ended up using the first option. I suggest installing the tool locally with npm. To run this:

rainbowstream

Posts with mentions or reviews of rainbowstream. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-24.

What's the simplest way to tweet from the terminal?
2 projects | /r/archlinux | 24 Oct 2022

Or try RainbowStream
Asciiville 1.3.1r2 - ASCII Art, animations, and command line Utilities for Linux
9 projects | /r/asciiart | 6 May 2022

rainbowstream - command line character based Twitter client See the rainbowstream usage manual to get started
Recommendations for Twitter TUI?
2 projects | /r/commandline | 28 Feb 2022

During Solène's Old Computer Challenge, I tried several CLI/TUI clients for Twitter. While none of them were particularly pleasant enough to make me want to use them long-term, rainbowstream was the least-bad one and what I ended up using for that week.
Is your terminal anti-social?
4 projects | dev.to | 16 Aug 2021

This is the heart of this post: Setting up a social tab where I (as a shy developer) can interact with the whole world. It consists of a pane for Twitter (made possible by rainbowstream, which automatically push new tweets to your timeline.
How to be social in the terminal
10 projects | dev.to | 20 Apr 2021

Rainbowstream is my favourite of the clients I have mentioned here. It is feature-rich, and enables a decent use of Twitter without being as distracting as the official clients. After installing Rainbowstream, run:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Messer and rainbowstream you can also consider the following projects:

fb-messenger-cli - fb-messenger-cli, console Facebook messenger

delete-tweets - Delete tweets from your timeline.

weechat-discord - Weechat plugin for Discord support - https://weechat.org/ https://discord.com/

mutt-wizard - A system for automatically configuring mutt and isync with a simple interface and safe passwords

tg - telegram-cli

wee-slack - A WeeChat script for Slack.com. Supports threads and reactions, synchronizes read markers, provides typing notification, etc..

igdm-cli - 💻💬 Instagram Direct Messages in your terminal

cordless - The Discord terminal client you never knew you wanted.

facebook_adblock - An open-source Ad Blocker for Facebook™

MusicPlayerPlus - Featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc with integration for Beets, spectrum visualization,Bandcamp/Soundcloud, asciimatics, cantata, and more