Tweet, a Twitter Quicksilver Action, is my favorite Twitter updating vehicle as of late - except for one thing. It uses Keychain Scripting to access your saved Twitterrific username and password - which, for some ungodly reason, takes about 30 seconds on my Mac Book Pro.
I’ve made some updates to Tweet.scpt to fix the slowness:
- Now uses the Twitter Rubygem to talk to Twitter
- Uses the username and password stored in
~/.twitter, via the Twitter Gem - Uses Twitterrific’s icon, if you have it installed.
Requirements
- Growl
- Rubygems
- Twitter Rubygem
sudo gem install twitter
Installation Directions
- Download Tweet.scpt
- Move
Tweet.scptto~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions - Restart Quicksilver (Cmd+Ctrl+Q)
- Setup a Trigger - I use Cmd+Opt+Ctrl+T
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This, combined with Twitter Monitor, is the way I’m using Twitter most often these days. Like it or not, I think Twitter has a lot of potential. I’d love to throw some AI at the trends of public twitters - you’d see the string “coffee” grow in popularity in the AM and wane in the PM. Add Geocoding support - a way to set your ‘Location’ as well as your status
- and Twitter becomes useful in another dimension. I’m interested to see what Twitter has in it’s future.