I want to configure a shared computer to display public updates from a specific Twitter account and hashtag. How can I do this without having to grant Gwibber write permissions to my own Twitter account?
What I want to avoid is this:
Currently there is no Read Only (via the API) for Gwibber and Twitter. Gwibber uses the OAuth method to associate your twitter account and push/pull data to and from Twitter.
If you page isn't protected you can use your RSS feed and a Desktop rss Aggregator for Read Only mode.
Unfortunately, Twitter doesn't support RSS feeds anymore:
http://support.twitter.com/articles/15361-how-to-find-your-rss-feed
As a workaround, my feeds for searches still work:
Gwibber is a full featured twitter client and does not currently have a "read only" mode.
You will need to find another application that has a read only mode (I know of a web app that is read only, but no desktop apps). Or, you can ask gwibber developers to add this feature, or you can fork gwibber and add the feature yourself :-)
You can setup Gwibber to be "read only".
You'll still have to grant Read/Write permissions on Twitters end, however, Gwibber won't let you write anything ("Tweet")
To do that, open up Broadcast preferences, then create a new account (If you haven't already added your Twitter account to Gwibber), and uncheck the "Send Messages" checkbox.
There you go.