Microblogging Clients

I have recently discovered the world of microblogging, and I am hooked Over the last couple of weeks I’ve tested a few microblogging clients. On my Ubuntu workstations I started out using Twitux, then switched to Thwirl after figuring out how to get Adobe AIR 1.5 installed on Ubuntu. However, when I started using Identi.ca [...]

Posted on January 28, 2009 at 10:38 am by Martin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Hacking WordTwit into WordDent

I have quickly forked WordTwit into WordDent. WordDent is a WordPress plugin that utilizes the Twitter API to automatically push a published post to your Identi.ca account as a dent. It allows all your Identi.ca contacts to keep up to date with your blog postings. I’m still  just testing that WordDent works correctly. I’ll find [...]

Posted on January 23, 2009 at 6:24 pm by Martin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Twitter status updates from the shell

I updated my wiki script (Yawki) earlier, it now produces an RSS 2.0 feed and notifies Twitter when I add or edit a wiki page. Yawki is a 30k shell script so I needed to find I way to notify Twitter via the shell. A little Googling later and I had the answer curl -u [...]

Posted on January 17, 2009 at 2:55 pm by Martin · Permalink · One Comment
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Blog post notifications to Twitter

I’ve just installed WordTwit on my blog. WordTwit keeps track of when you publish new posts, and automatically informs all of your followers by pushing out a Twitter tweet. All links are automatically convered to tiny URLs to save space.

Posted on January 17, 2009 at 10:45 am by Martin · Permalink · One Comment
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