Ubuntu – Twitter client with Real Time Notifications

Just like previous answers said, Twitter shut down its 1.0 API Wednesday, June 12th 2013. Now Twitter clients have to use the new and controversial 1.1 API. As a consequence, Twitter clients which have not implemented the 1.1 API support yet will be broken until they implement it. Twitter clients for Linux (and Ubuntu) are in different situations :

• Polly and Birdie both support this 1.1 API. You can use them seamlessly.
• Choqok and Turpial did not currently support the 1.1 API. So they will not work until their developers implement the 1.1 API support.
• Hotot's case is a bit different. It officially do not support 1.1 API however it is "1.1 ready". There is a tweak in the settings which enables Hotot to work partially. For exemple, mentions and lists will not work at all, unlike displaying timelines and posting a tweet. To make Hotot work with the 1.1 API, go to Preferences > Advanced and set the "API Base" parameter to "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/". Restart Hotot after that. Its variant for Google Chrome (and Chromium too) "Hotot for Chrome" supports 1.1 API just like Polly and Birdie.

Yes, it is hardware-specific. For Intel graphics you can use sudo intel_gpu_top, which should do exactly what you want. If you don't have it (which is very unlikely), just install intel-gpu-tools.