How to Integrate Thunderbird with Twitter & G Talk Account

Are you working on Mozilla Thunderbird? Does your business rely on Twitter to spread all services across the word? For this, you may find it more reliable if you can tweet from the same application. Fortunately, the developers of an open source email client Thunderbird thought about that a lot. With a fast and easy setup, you must have your Twitter account integrated into Mozilla Thunderbird. This integration does not provide some additional features of a standard Twitter client or Twitter site. In fact, with these things you can only view your Twitter home feed and tweet. There is no direct emailing, seeing trends, or even viewing all notifications. You get ready to read and post—that is enough for now. But what you want, especially when efficiency is the name of a game. Thus, in the upcoming section, we will discuss a complete solution to let users understand how to integrate Thunderbird profile with Twitter and GTalk account .

Follow How to Set up Chat in Thunderbird

Go through the following steps that will help to integrate Thunderbird with Twitter account. Let us have a look:

Setup Twitter Account in Thunderbird

To Preview Twitter Timeline within Thunderbird, firstly open Thunderbird.

• Go to Tools &  Select Chat Status. Under this option Choose Show Account

• Now Select New Account present at the left-below corner of the “Instant Messaging Status” window

• A new Chat Account Wizard window pops up. Here Choose Twitter option & Click on Next button

• Now Enter your Twitter Account Username & proceed

• Within Advanced Option, you can add any Local Alias Name or skip for further procedure

• A window displaying Network & Username appears for confirmation of details. Then Click on Finish

• Now it redirects you the twitter domain, here all you need is to enter your password & Click on Authorize app to Continue

• After Successful Login, you can preview your Twitter account integrated with Thunderbird with Green login icon

• You can access your Twitter Timeline on Chat icon on Thunderbird Main window & access timeline as shown below :

Manually Integrate Thunderbird with Google Talk

• On the top of Thunderbird window, click on the File menu, select the New option and then, go to Chat Account option

 

• Now, you should enter the Username:

• After that, you will also have to enter Password for the service.

Advanced Options: This option is not generally needed, so just click on Next button.

• Finish the Wizard screen
• Next, the Summary screen will be shown in front of you. Click on Finish to complete the process to
• Integrate Thunderbird with Google Talk and then, start chatting

• Connect to the Chat Account

• Make sure that you are online by clicking on Chat Status and connecting:
  a) click on Tools, select Chat status and then, choose Show Accounts…
  b) click on Connect next to the account that you wish to go online with
• Use Chat Tab to start & join all conversations
• Click on Chat Tab and go to the Write Tab to start and join all the conversations
• Chat is included in Search field
• Like any other Thunderbird account for e.g., email and RSS, Chat will be integrated with search.

Conclusion

Thunderbird is the most popular desktop-based email client. Most of users want to configure their Thunderbird with Google Talk& Twitter account. Therefore, in this blog, we have covered all manual ways to integrate Thunderbird with Twitter and GTalk account in detail. Make sure follow each and every step very carefully.