Can I receive Twitter updates without granting write permissions for my Twitter account?

Question

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:

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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:

http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=askubuntu

Answer 3

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 :-)

Answer 4

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.