macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install mikutterlocal Homebrew formula metadata
brew
Install mikutter with Homebrew, apt
Extensible Twitter client. Version 5.1.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-22.
install
Additional install commands
Linux
Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install mikutterDebian stable package indexes · mikutter · source: deb.debian.org
overview
Package summary
Extensible Twitter client
Project links
Commands and aliases
- mikutter
history
Project history and usage
mikutter is a Ruby/GTK social client created by Toshiaki Asai, who is listed on the project's development page as toshi_a. Its site dates the project copyright span from 2009 to 2024 and publishes a long download archive reaching back to 0.0.1-era tarballs, which places it among the long-running desktop Twitter clients from the pre-X era.
Project history
The application grew around a multi-pane workflow for heavy timeline use: home timelines, replies, lists, searches, threads, profiles, and activity views can be arranged side by side. The same official feature page emphasizes multi-account use, extracted tabs, list handling, thread views, and search tabs, making mikutter more of a programmable social-dashboard client than a simple single-feed reader.
How it is used
A notable part of mikutter's niche is its plugin culture. The project maintains a separate "Writing mikutter plugin" reference for installing and developing plugins, and the development page points plugin authors to those docs. In package-manager terms it is a desktop Ruby application distributed through Homebrew and Linux distributions rather than a library dependency; users normally install the `mikutter` executable and extend it through the app's plugin system.
Sources
security posture
No protected-tool coverage found yet
No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for mikutter. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
- Installs with 13 runtime dependencies.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
mikutter | cli | global executable |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-07-08
manager version5.1.2
manager updated2026-06-22
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
- infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://mikutter.hachune.net/none confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:mikutter |
|---|---|
| Version | 5.1.2 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mikutter |
| Homepage | https://mikutter.hachune.net/ |
| Upstream docs | https://mikutter.hachune.net/ |
| License | MIT |
| Source archive | https://mikutter.hachune.net/bin/mikutter-5.1.2.tar.gz |
| Last updated | 2026-06-22T14:05:29-07:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Dependencies | at-spi2-core, cairo, fontconfig, freetype, gdk-pixbuf, gettext, glib, gobject-introspection, gtk+3, harfbuzz, pango, ruby, terminal-notifier |
| Uses from macOS | libffi, libxml2, libxslt |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | mikutter |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Debian apt95%
mikutter 5.1.0+dfsg-1
plugin-extensible Twitter client
sudo apt install mikutter- Section: net
- Architecture: all
- 19 dependencies
- 2 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mikutter
Ubuntu apt95%
mikutter 5.0.4+dfsg1-2
plugin-extensible Twitter client
sudo apt install mikutter- Section: universe/net
- Architecture: all
- 19 dependencies
- 2 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mikutter
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment