Twister is a peer-to-peer, censorship resistant Twitter replacement. If you are tired of Twitter censorship, switch to Twister. If you are looking for the client software, go here: http://twister.net.co
Since the Twister documentation isn’t the best, here is how you can install Twister server on Ubuntu [regular users don’t need to do this]:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:podshumok/twister-core-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install twister-core
sudo apt-get install twister
[Checked current as of June 1 2016]
Install instructions are here:
http://twister.net.co/?page_id=23
Also may need:
apt-get install autoconf
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
apt-get install dh-autoreconf
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
sudo apt-get install libdb-dev
sudo apt-get install libdb++-dev