While Twinkle does not support PulseAudio by itself, it is quite possible to run it on a system where PulseAudio is used. From what I understand (not being a PA user myself), there are two options:

Temporarily disable PulseAudio while Twinkle is running

This is obviously not a great solution, but it might be sufficient if Twinkle is only being used occasionally. One only needs to type pasuspender -- twinkle to suspend PulseAudio and launch Twinkle; the former will automatically be resumed after the latter exits.

Configure ALSA to use PulseAudio

This can be achieved by first installing the pulse ALSA plugin (found in the libasound2-plugins package on Debian and its derivatives, alsa-plugins-pulseaudio on Fedora, or pulseaudio-alsa on Arch Linux). Typically, installing such a package will automatically configure ALSA to use PulseAudio by default. See the ArchWiki for more information, or this asound.conf example if you want/need to do it manually.

Be aware, however, that there are reports of bad audio quality with this method, such as #103 (comment) and #9 (comment). (I don't know if this is a universal problem or if it only affects some people; can anyone comment on this?) ~~See also #118 for a bug which seems to only affect PulseAudio users.~~

Add support for PulseAudio #161

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