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Pointless Twitter Automation

Here’s a little thing that will update Twitter when you wake up your computer.

Save the following in a text file somewhere (I put it in /bin/ and called it twitterwakeup.sh), replacing the stuff in italics with your email, password and cheery waking up message:

#! /bin/sh

curl --user yourname@yourdomain.com:yourpassword -F status="Your cheery waking up message!" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json

(That second bit should all be on one line.)

Make it executable:

sudo chmod u+x /bin/twitter.sh

Install Bernhard Baehr’s handy Sleepwatcher daemon.

Make a file called .wakeup in your home directory, and put the full path to your twitterwakeup.sh script in it.

That’s it.

Posted at 1am on 30/01/07 by Jack Mottram to the mac, web category.
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  1. what?

    Posted by RjMottram at 9am on 30.01.07

  2. Hee. I should make a special front page for you that hides any gobbledegeek.

    Posted by Jack Mottram at 11am on 30.01.07

  3. hmmmm…very interesting!
    Thanks google

    Posted by BoldWess at 6pm on 17.01.08

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