How To Use Facebook Chat with Pidgin

Facebook announced that Facebook Chat could now be integrated into third party IM clients earlier this week. No longer are you restricted to using the official Facebook site to interact with chat. Facebook Chat now utilizes the XMPP Chat protocol, which allows users to immediately reap the benefits of the release — without having to wait for developers to update their chat clients.

Any third party IM client (such as Pidgin, iChat, Adium, Digsby) can now utilize the Facebook Chat service.  Below,

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