NOTE: This project is no longer maintained.
This is the source code for the Buzzbird multi-platform twitter client. Buzzbird is based on the Mozilla XUL platform and runs on OSX, Windows, and Linux.
You can learn more about Buzzbird on its homepage, here:
http://getbuzzbird.com
If you want to download the source and try it out "the hard way", first download the Mozilla XULrunner runtime from here:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/
Follow Mozilla's instructions for how to install it.
After installing XULrunner, you should be able to run Buzzbird at the command line, either by running bang.sh (OSX and Linux), or bang.bat (Windows). On OSX, bang.sh will put an application bundle in your /Applications folder prior to running the app.
Buzzbird is packaged using the pkg.sh/pkg.bat scripts, along with some other magic after the fact - on Windows, the free version of the Advanced Installer (http://www.advancedinstaller.com/) is used in conjunction with the buzzbird-template.aip file in the source directory and the contents of the pkg directory to create an install package. On Linux and OSX, we just create a tarball or ZIP file of the pkg directory.
Once packaged, end users don't need to concern themselves with getting a XUL runner runtime.
This source code is pretty terrible. I started writing it when I knew literally no Javascript, and very little CSS, in order to teach myself Javascript and CSS. Since then, I've learned a lot both from this project and from other work-related activity, and I now recognize how ugly a lot of it is. I'm slowly working on refactoring it, but refactoring is never as fun as adding new features, so it'll be ugly for a while.
All the source code is licensed under the MIT license.
Enjoy.