Tweeter = Twitter + QuickSilver + iChat + Growl
First, check out CodaHale.com that lets you update your twitter account from quicksilver. Then Ted added Growl support to it.
I decided this is exactly what I needed to use Twitter, except I already do this to update my iChat Status Message. I added three lines to the code, that while it updates Twitter it also changes your iChat Status Message.
Maybe next version I can figure out how to push the changes to Facebook!
To get it going, follow the CodaHale.com blog instructions, but just use this script and put it where you need.
January 22nd, 2007 at Jan 22, 07 | 1:13 am
[...] Coda Hale created a Quicksilver action to post conveniently to Twitter. Ted Leung thought it would be nice to have Growl notifications in the mix and Matt Matteson thought it needed a bit more sparkle by adding iChat support. Well, now I add two more options to the mix. [...]
January 23rd, 2007 at Jan 23, 07 | 10:16 pm
I didn’t like that if iChat was off it was activated by the script. I whipped up this mod to check if iChat was active first.
tell application "System Events"
set iChatOn to count (every process whose displayed name is "iChat")
end tell
if iChatOn is greater than 0 then
tell application "iChat"
set the status message to tweet
end tell
end if
January 23rd, 2007 at Jan 23, 07 | 10:40 pm
Good modification dryan. Thanks for sharing!
January 27th, 2007 at Jan 27, 07 | 1:36 pm
Wow. Quite spiffy.
I am really enjoying the run on this script.
CodaHale>Ted>Matt>BabylonDreams
Now, can your script update a user’s Twitter to reflect that it was updated via QS or Tweet.scpt??
Twitterific can! (Not that I can take credit for Twitteriffic at all :-))
January 31st, 2007 at Jan 31, 07 | 3:29 pm
I don’t think I can change what it shows for how it was updated. The script works by using the unix tool curl to push a web update. No API required.
February 1st, 2007 at Feb 01, 07 | 3:03 pm
[...] is a neat applescript based on Tweet, that not only gives a Growl notification and changes the iChat status but also adds the current Plazes location to the Twitter update. The code is based on Peter [...]
April 6th, 2007 at Apr 06, 07 | 6:28 pm
[...] scripting, but it was still too geeky for me to get working with my limited know-how. I even found iChat support and word count with Growl [...]
October 9th, 2007 at Oct 09, 07 | 6:29 am
Great job! This is exactly what I needed.
October 9th, 2007 at Oct 09, 07 | 9:26 am
[...] MattMatteson.com » Blog Archive » Tweeter = Twitter + QuickSilver + iChat + Growl Good integration, why update them both if you don’t have to. (tags: twitter quicksilver) [...]
October 9th, 2007 at Oct 09, 07 | 1:39 pm
[...] search yielded a great script for Quicksilver here and the improved version with iChat support here. [...]
December 10th, 2007 at Dec 10, 07 | 10:35 am
[...] scripting, but it was still too geeky for me to get working with my limited know-how. I even found iChat support and word count with Growl [...]