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Twitter and Quicksilver, two great tastes
I'll be the first to admit that Twitter, which we at TUAW totally heart, isn't for everyone. Quicksilver, another TUAW fav, is also not for everyone. However, when you cross Twitter with Quicksilver and throw in a dash of Growl and you've just made it onto my Christmas card list.First Coda Hale whipped up a QuickSilver action, using AppleScript, enables you to post tweets (that's what messages posted to Twitter are called) using only QuickSilver. Then Ted Leung took the same script, but added Growl notification which lets you know when the tweet has been posted via Growl.
I may be in geek nirvana.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mat Lu said 10:53AM on 1-19-2007
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?
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Bence said 11:33AM on 1-19-2007
Wow... if only I knew half of the words in this post.. :)
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Andrew said 11:37AM on 1-19-2007
great post, scott - always make us laugh
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Zachary Hinchliffe said 11:47AM on 1-19-2007
Help! Script Editor is refusing to save the AppleScript!
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phlyingpenguin said 1:44PM on 1-19-2007
Now, to make Adium change your status with the twitter script as well...
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phlyingpenguin said 2:47PM on 1-19-2007
Perfect, no need to put the twitter pieces in Quicksilver!
TwitterAdium
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B deR West said 5:02PM on 1-19-2007
Stop posting about twitter!
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Matt said 1:37AM on 1-20-2007
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/
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Matt said 11:37AM on 1-21-2007
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.
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Joe Carroll said 10:42AM on 2-07-2007
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!
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