Trying out Twitter
Thursday, December 13th, 2007 02:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
afunaAbby convinced me, and I have a Twitter... thing.
I think I like it. It basically lets me indulge in one-way whining in tiny bursts (words stolen from murklins :-)), without having to think too much.
I started in the afternoon by posting to it from GMail chat, but it seemed a bit awkward to have to switch to the browser all the time. Plus, the notifications wouldn't work. After I got home, I tried out Bitlbee on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
exor674's recommendation, and now I'm able to post from IRC (irssi, which I'm logged into via Ciaran's server all the time, anyway!)
What would make it perfect would be if I could post a digest of my Twitter stuff as a backdated entry on my LJ, but I'm running into problems with the Perl modules (reflected on the last few items of my feed hah). I wonder what XML::RSS::Tools does, and whether I can rewrite the twitter2lj.pl script to not use it? (My other alternative is to run it as a cron job from a web server, but it needs additional modules, and I'd have to ask first.)
I think I like it. It basically lets me indulge in one-way whining in tiny bursts (words stolen from murklins :-)), without having to think too much.
I started in the afternoon by posting to it from GMail chat, but it seemed a bit awkward to have to switch to the browser all the time. Plus, the notifications wouldn't work. After I got home, I tried out Bitlbee on
exor674's recommendation, and now I'm able to post from IRC (irssi, which I'm logged into via Ciaran's server all the time, anyway!)What would make it perfect would be if I could post a digest of my Twitter stuff as a backdated entry on my LJ, but I'm running into problems with the Perl modules (reflected on the last few items of my feed hah). I wonder what XML::RSS::Tools does, and whether I can rewrite the twitter2lj.pl script to not use it? (My other alternative is to run it as a cron job from a web server, but it needs additional modules, and I'd have to ask first.)
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Date: 2007-12-12 06:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-13 02:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-12 07:26 pm (UTC)well, almost... I'm not sure about the backdating part
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Date: 2007-12-13 12:00 am (UTC):p
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Date: 2007-12-13 10:05 am (UTC)That's why I never post to LJ from Flickr either - it's so annoying!
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Date: 2007-12-13 02:09 pm (UTC)But still, aren't most of us coding geeks of some flavour or another? Why use a third-party tool when you can write/edit your own?!
(And hey, using that script forced me to actually "learn" perl which I'd been putting off for ages since I had no project for it and had specific changes I wanted to make.)
:D
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Date: 2007-12-13 02:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-13 02:29 pm (UTC)(But thank you for the link!)
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Date: 2007-12-13 12:50 am (UTC)http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/twidget
not sure if that is what you want or if it'll work for you..
ps. following you! :)
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Date: 2007-12-13 02:31 pm (UTC)(following you too -- but you already know that)
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Date: 2007-12-13 02:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-13 01:15 am (UTC)Also, do you just mean flagging the DOOO so it doesn't appear on your flist/feed? Should be doable with some extra coding, it's in the LJ module.
Also, for your bookmarking reminder regarding installing modules without root: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/CPAN
And something else I've forgotten.
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Date: 2007-12-13 07:39 pm (UTC)Was fun!
The one thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to authenticate myself. It just won't authorize me, no matter what I do! So I had to save the archives file (http://twitter.com/account/archive.xml) and read it in locally. That worked as well, but it felt awkward *g*
Thank you for pointing me to those instructions for CPAN :)
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Date: 2007-12-13 12:06 pm (UTC)^.^
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Date: 2007-12-13 07:39 pm (UTC)