# klinker24/talon-for-twitter-android

The most powerful and beautiful Twitter client available.

Repository: https://github.com/klinker24/talon-for-twitter-android
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/talon-for-twitter-android
Homepage: https://klinkerapps.com/talon-overview
Language: Java
License Family: other
Topics: twitter, android, talon, java, kotlin, twitter-api, app
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-01-22T14:06:13+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3708, "days_push": 1319, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1180, forks 170 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:53.575565+00:00)

## What it is
Talon for Twitter is a full-featured, open-source third-party Twitter client for Android, originally a paid Play Store app. Development ended in January 2023 after Twitter's API policy changes, and users must supply their own Twitter API keys to build it.

## Use cases
- use twitter on android without the official app
- build a custom twitter client with my own api keys
- study the source code of a popular android twitter app
- view timelines and send tweets from a third-party android client
- learn android app development from a real-world social app codebase

## When to choose
- you want a full-featured alternative Twitter client on Android and have your own developer API keys
- you want a real-world Java/Kotlin Android codebase to study or fork

## When to avoid
- you expect active maintenance or working out-of-the-box functionality - development stopped in January 2023 due to Twitter's API policy
- you don't have Twitter developer API keys, since the app requires them to build and run

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: http-client, mobile-framework
- domain: social-media, android-tools, cross-platform
- platform: jvm
- tags: twitter-client, third-party-app, discontinued, open-source-android-app, android

## Member repositories
- klinker24/talon-for-twitter-android (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:53.575565+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:25:18.752446+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/klinker24/talon-for-twitter-android (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:53.575565+00:00, sha 2821b3a661f5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.