BitlBee has support for identi.ca, an open source social networking and micro-blogging service based on the OpenMicroBlogging specification. It uses the same protocol as twitter, but defaults to a base_url pointing at identi.ca, and with OAuth disabled.

To use your identi.ca account in BitlBee: 

   1 11:45:03 <wilmer> account add identica <handle> [<password>]
   2 11:45:03 <root> Account successfully added
   3 11:45:06 <wilmer> account on
   4 11:45:06 <root> Trying to get all accounts connected...
   5 11:45:06 <root> identica - Logging in: Connecting

From version 3.0.5 and higher, OAuth for identi.ca will also be supported so connecting to identi.ca will be just like connecting to Twitter.