Our "Best Linux Twitter Client" poll ended today. And the winner is.... (no surprise here): Hotot (40%), followed by Gwibber (29%) and Choqok (13.7%).

Here are the exact poll results:

Pino would have probably gotten a lot more votes if it worked with OAuth (even though it does work without OAuth with a trick, but most people probably don't know that). Either way, it's amazing how an application (Hotot) which until 2 months ago nobody knew it exists now takes the first spot of the Best Linux Twitter Client poll.

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Because there are many Twitter clients out there, we asked you to nominate the best Twitter client in a comment on a post last week. Today, you all get to vote for the best Linux Twitter client based on your nominations (top 5 nominations). So, which of the following is the best Linux Twitter client?

This post is not an actual poll, but only for nominating the best Twitter client for Linux. So, what's the best Linux Twitter client? What you must do is simply write a comment on this post stating your vote. Example: "vote Pino".  You can of course discuss on the subject too, but firstly make sure you enter your vote.

The 5 most nominated applications will then be included in a poll next week. Please only nominate one Twitter application!

We're using nominations because there are a lot of Linux Twitter clients and I don't know which are the most popular 5 to use in a poll. Also, if we'd only vote using the comment system, the votes wouldn't be very accurate since a lot of people don't like to comment and just want to click the "vote" button. So, to have more accurate results, the actual poll will run in a week after todays' nominations and will include the top 5 most nominated Linux Twitter clients.

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The best Linux clipboard manager poll ended yesterday. There is no surprise concerning the winner: Parcellite won the poll with 287 votes (44.15%).

Here is a poll which was suggested multiple times: what's the best clipboard manager for Linux? Our poll options are: Parcellite, Glipper, Pastie, Klipper and Glippy but you can also enter your own answer:

Like we told you yesterday, here is this week's poll: the best Linux download manager. The contenders are: jDownloader, axel, aria2, wget, FatRat, SlimRat, Uget, Tucan and Kget. That's right, this time we have 3 command line tools among the poll options (even though only aria2 is an actual download manager, but wget and axel can serve as download managers too).

Another week, another poll. This time you can vote for the best Linux (main) menu. I didn't include all the menus out there in the poll, but there are more options than we usually use for our polls. The contenders are: MintMenu, Lancelot, Main Menu (the main GNOME menu), Slab, Menu bar (the Ubuntu default menu), Kickoff, USP (Ubuntu System Panel), GnoMenu, K-Menu and Cardapio.

As usual, you can vote for something not among the default options by choosing "other" and then entering your answer.

The results for this week's poll: "best Linux password manager" are in. Most of the votes went to only 2 of the 6 applications we suggested. Read on!

For this week's poll (well, lately we had a poll every two weeks due to already covering most areas), we'd like to ask the WebUpd8 readers: What is the best Linux password manager? Gorilla, KeePassX, JPassword, GPass, LastPass or Revelation?

For this week, we had a really interesting yet weird poll on WebUpd8: we asked you what is the most awaited Linux project of the year, with the poll options including Opera 10.60 for Linux (released today), Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, GNOME Shell, Steam, The GIMP 2.8, uTorrent, Chrome OS, VLMC, Blender 2.5 and Firefox 4.0.

If the first place was something we were expecting, there are some interesting results. Read on!

This week we're going to have a different kind of poll. It's a bit weird because it includes applications, a Linux distribution (Ubuntu) and a desktop environment: GNOME Shell. But I think it's a really interesting poll. To make it more interesting, we've also added uTorrent for Linux to the list even though the release date is not known yet.

The best Linux backup software poll is over. This is the first time since we started our weekly poll that a command line utility wins over all GUI alternatives.

WebUpd8 reader Phil sent us an email suggesting "best Linux backup software" for this week's poll, so here it is.

The contenders are: Back In Time, fwbackups, Deja Dup, rsync (command line), luckyBackup, Simple Backup Solution (sbackup).

In our last week's poll, we asked you to vote for the best Linux DVD ripper.

It's time for another weekly poll. For this week: best Linux DVD Ripper.

The candidates are: AcidRip, HandBrake, dvd::rip, OGMRip and k9Copy. But as usual, you can enter a different result if you want to, by selecting "Other" and then entering your anwser.

Last week we asked you to vote for the best Linux file manager. Let's see what the WebUpd8 readers voted.

Thanks to Bill's suggestion, this week's poll is: best Linux file manager. The selection for this poll is: MC (Midnight Commander), Dolphin, Konqueror, Thunar, PCManFM and Nautilus.

Many thanks to everyone who voted in this week's poll: Best Linux BitTorrent client.


Here are the results: