Hawkscope: Twitter plugin

The new release of Hawkscope has a Twitter plugin. Here's how you can install and use it:

Installing

First, go to Hawkscope Settings



Then go to Plugins tab and click Get Plugins



Hawkscope Plugins page will open in your Browser, click on twitter-1.0.jar to download it





Go to your download folder to find the plugin



Then go back to Hawkscope Settings Plugins tab and click Open in Plugin Location



A new Finder (or another file navigator) window will open. You will have to drag and drop twitter-1.0.jar from your downloads to Hawkscope plugins folder





Then, in Hawkscope Settings Plugins tab click Reload Plugins. You should see Twitter plugin in Available Plugins list



Close Hawkscope Settings window (click OK). Then if you open Hawkscope menu you will see a sad Twitter item. It's sad because there is no configuration.



Configuring

Go to Settings again. Your settings now has a Twitter tab



Enter your Twitter username and password. You can choose what elements to display. I chose not to see my own tweets. Click OK to apply your settings.



Your Twitter Hawkscope menu item is now enabled


Using

Click Tweet! to add a new Twitter status message



And you can also see more tweets or visit them in browser by clicking



Enjoy! And by the way, this plugin works on all operating systems that Hawkscope supports - Windows, Linux (Gnome) and Mac.