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fortune | twidge update actually works as expected. Add cron to the mix, and you can automate random utterances to appear on twitter when you are away from your computer or otherwise engaged.
More an amusement than anything useful, but it killed 5 minutes of my lunchtime.
(I wrote more about twidge here)
I’ve been after a command line based microblogging tool for ages. I think Twidge might be just what I need.
The syntax to make a post is as follows:
twidge update "whatever you want to post goes here"
And before you do your first update, just type twidge setup, which will then ask for your usename and password.
If you want to update identi.ca rather than twitter, then add the following line at the end of .twidgerc:
urlbase: http://identi.ca/api
And that’s all there is to it.
I’ve been experimenting with Mozilla’s new (very much still in development) Ubiquity tool, which does a lot of what Quicksilver and Gnome-do can do, but is also expandable to an almost unlimited degree.
I was going to write a tutorial on how to use Ubiquity to post to Twitter, but it’s really as simple as starting Ubiquity and typing one line as seen below:
twitter Type your status here
Hit enter, and your post appears on Twitter. It’s really that simple.