Nocturn – Simple Twitter client with Support of Multiple accounts

Nocturn Is a simple desktop Twitter app which support Multiple accounts & Cross Platform such as Mac, Linux & Windows built with React, Redux and Electron.

Nocturn highly configured and integrated with Vim-style key bindings, So user have to perform all the major activity/action using keyboard shortcut, like replay & retweet, etc.,.

We can easily add more than one account by clicking the avatar icon & switching between account is very easy and not even taking any time delay.

We have already covered about Corebird & Anatine twitter client in our previous article, you can give a try, if you like it.

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Nocturn Features

• Realtime timeline using UserStream
• Multi-account support
• Vim-like key bindings
• Works on Windows, OSX and Linux

Key bindings

• Tweet, Reply, Search Enter
• Delete a tweet Alt-Backspace
• Favorite a tweet F
• Retweet a tweet Shift-R
• Select a next tweet J, ↓
• Select a previous tweet K, ↑
• Select the first tweet 0, Space
• Open url with external browser T
• Select a next tab Alt-P
• Select a previous tab Alt-O
• Select a next account Alt-J
• Select a previous account Alt-K
• Insert a newline Shift-Enter
• Reload tweets and streaming Ctrl-R

Disadvantage : simple Twitter client which suitable for basic usage and not suitable for power users who uses more and more. Need to improve lot of things to make it as a one of the best twitter client for Linux Desktop.

1) Install Nocturn on Linux

As of now there is no official package & third party package too. So, we need to install it manually. Navigate to /opt directory and download the Nocturn zip file from developer github page, then finally extract it.

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[Navigate to /opt directory]
$ cd /opt

[Download Nocturn zip file]
$ sudo wget https://github.com/k0kubun/Nocturn/releases/download/v1.2.1/Nocturn-linux-x64.zip

[Unzip Nocturn]
$ sudo unzip Nocturn-linux-x64.zip
$ cd unzip Nocturn-linux-x64

[Download Nocturn logo]
$ sudo wget https://github.com/k0kubun/Nocturn/blob/master/resources/Nocturn.png