I noticed services were not from branch in my previous test, so i removed every gwibber package and then explicitly installed 3.4.1-0ubuntu1.1 from precise-proposed: stefan@***:~$ sudo aptitude install gwibber-service/precise-proposed gwibber/precise-proposed libgwibber2/precise-proposed libgwibber-gtk2/precise-proposed gwibber-service-facebook/precise-proposed gwibber-service-identica/precise-proposed gwibber-service-twitter/precise-proposed The following NEW packages will be installed: gwibber gwibber-service gwibber-service-facebook gwibber-service-identica gwibber-service-twitter libgwibber-gtk2 libgwibber2 0 packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 32 not upgraded. Need to get 24,5 kB/357 kB of archives. After unpacking 1890 kB will be used. Get: 1 http://si.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-proposed/main gwibber-service-facebook all 3.4.1-0ubuntu1.1 [7760 B] Get: 2 http://si.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-proposed/main gwibber-service-identica all 3.4.1-0ubuntu1.1 [7790 B] Get: 3 http://si.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-proposed/main gwibber-service-twitter all 3.4.1-0ubuntu1.1 [8992 B] Fetched 24,5 kB in 0s (85,6 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package gwibber-service. (Reading database ... 268608 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking gwibber-service (from .../gwibber-service_3.4.1-0ubuntu1.1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package libgwibber2. Unpacking libgwibber2 (from .../libgwibber2_3.4.1-0ubuntu1.1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package libgwibber-gtk2. Unpacking libgwibber-gtk2 (from .../libgwibber-gtk2_3.4.1-0ubuntu1.1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package gwibber. Unpacking gwibber (from .../gwibber_3.4.1-0ubuntu1.1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package gwibber-service-facebook. Unpacking gwibber-service-facebook (from .../gwibber-service-facebook_3.4.1-0ubuntu1.1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package gwibber-service-identica. Unpacking gwibber-service-identica (from .../gwibber-service-identica_3.4.1-0ubuntu1.1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package gwibber-service-twitter. Unpacking gwibber-service-twitter (from .../gwibber-service-twitter_3.4.1-0ubuntu1.1_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for gconf2 ... Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0 ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... Setting up gwibber-service (3.4.1-0ubuntu1.1) ... Setting up libgwibber2 (3.4.1-0ubuntu1.1) ... Setting up libgwibber-gtk2 (3.4.1-0ubuntu1.1) ... Setting up gwibber (3.4.1-0ubuntu1.1) ... Setting up gwibber-service-facebook (3.4.1-0ubuntu1.1) ... Setting up gwibber-service-identica (3.4.1-0ubuntu1.1) ... Setting up gwibber-service-twitter (3.4.1-0ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place still the same: (gwibber:22129): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: g_object_set_property: object class `GwibberAccount' has no property named `uid' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/gwibber/plugins/facebook/gtk/facebook/__init__.py", line 171, in on_facebook_auth_title_change self.ui.get_object("fb_auth_done_label").set_label(_("%s has been authorized by Facebook") % str(self.account["username"])) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0160' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)