Same bug here.  Running Lucid Netbook Ed. on Acer AOD250.  No whining.  I have to say that I'm generally thrilled with the caliber of product coming out of Ubuntu these days.  Hope this helps.  Feel free to ping me for additional info or testing.

gary@meatwad:~$ gwibber

** (gwibber:15730): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowState' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'

** (gwibber:15730): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowActions' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'

** (gwibber:15730): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowMoveResizeMask' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'
Updating...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gwibber", line 67, in <module>
    client.Client()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 447, in __init__
    self.w = GwibberClient()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 41, in __init__
    if len(json.loads(self.service.GetAccounts())) == 0:
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/connection.py", line 620, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.AttributeError: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/service.py", line 702, in _message_cb
    retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/dispatcher.py", line 491, in GetAccounts
    for account in self.accounts.get_records(COUCH_TYPE_ACCOUNT, True):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/records/server_base.py", line 482, in get_records
    exists = self.view_exists(view_name, design_doc)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/records/server_base.py", line 429, in view_exists
    self.with_reconnects(self.db.__getitem__, doc_id)["views"]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/records/server_base.py", line 168, in with_reconnects
    self._reconnect()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/records/server_base.py", line 176, in _reconnect
    if self._database_name not in self._server:
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/couchdb/client.py", line 124, in __contains__
    self.resource.head(validate_dbname(name))
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/couchdb/client.py", line 981, in head
    return self._request('HEAD', path, headers=headers, **params)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/couchdb/client.py", line 1014, in _request
    resp, data = _make_request()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/couchdb/client.py", line 1009, in _make_request
    body=body, headers=headers)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/httplib2/__init__.py", line 1129, in request
    (response, content) = self._request(conn, authority, uri, request_uri, method, body, headers, redirections, cachekey)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/httplib2/__init__.py", line 901, in _request
    (response, content) = self._conn_request(conn, request_uri, method, body, headers)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/httplib2/__init__.py", line 871, in _conn_request
    response = conn.getresponse()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 984, in getresponse
    method=self._method)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 330, in __init__
    self.fp = sock.makefile('rb', 0)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'makefile'