Twitter and Quicksilver, two great tastes

I’d like to contribute a little script to go with this.

I love Quicksilver, and was delighted to discover this Tweet action, but the one problem with using Quicksilver to update Twitter was that you couldn’t easily tell if your tweet was too long before you sent it. Word/letter/line counting is a simple but useful function that I couldn’t find anywhere else in Quicksilver, so I wrote my own AppleScript action for it. Anyone who wants to add such functionality to Quicksilver can get the script from my post on the Quicksilver forums here:

http://blacktree.cocoaforge.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5436

I hope people find this useful. Previously I’d echo my tweet through a pipe to wc and run as a shell command. This action is a big improvement on that process :-) Now I simply activate Quicksilver, press period to enter my text, then tab and WC to select my Word Count action, enter, then (assuming it’s not too long) press tab and TW to select the Tweet action and press enter to send my update.

Now Quicksilver provides my favourite way to update Twitter too!

My link didn't work from above, let me try again.

I just edited the script so it pushes the update to your iChat Status Message.

You can see it here.
http://dlzip.com/wordpress/2007/01/19/tweeter-twitter-quicksilver-ichat/

Thanks for the link great script.

I just edited the script so it pushes the update to your iChat Status Message.

You can see it here.

Stop posting about twitter!

Perfect, no need to put the twitter pieces in Quicksilver!

TwitterAdium

Now, to make Adium change your status with the twitter script as well...

Help! Script Editor is refusing to save the AppleScript!

Wow... if only I knew half of the words in this post.. :)

Okay that's pretty cool, but what we need is Growl support in the other direction: i.e. is there a reader application out there that will pop up a Growl message when one of your friends posts a new Tweet?

great post, scott - always make us laugh