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When it went down, I quickly realized my addiction to Twitter via irssi.

What are you using?

Twirrsi

I get access to Twitter via IRC by using Bitlbee.

I don't use Bitlbee, but I had no idea that it supported micro-blogging. I thought that it was just IM protocols.

Bitlbee currently supports Jabber, MSN, OSCAR (AIM/ICQ), Yahoo and Twitter

There is also a Twitter/Jabber gateway for those not using Bitlbee: https://www.tweet.im/