New Adventures in Technology » Twitter

Social networking workflow

Andy — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:22:11 +0000

This is how it works…..

I post anything under 140 characters to identi.ca using the Ubiquity extension for Firefox. This then posts them to Twitter and Facebook, and adds them to the right hand menu of this blog using the Twitter Tools plugin. Then, once a day, they all get spliced together by Loudtwitter and posted to my Live Journal.

I also add posts to my LJ using the Deepest Sender plugin for Firefox. I only post there if I need to lock things down to custom groups of people (or if what I write cannot be in the public domain for whatever reason).

Everything else gets posted here. Also via Deepest Sender.

Additionally, everything I listen to all all my computers and my iPod is sent to Last.fm, which then adds the last 10 songs to the right hand menu of this blog.

I think that is pretty much everything.

Wiki Widgets

Andy — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:06:10 +0000

I was looking at Wiki Widgets today, and in particular how to integrate Google Calendar and Twitter with Mediawiki.

This is something I’d like to investigate further when I’m not so busy.

For an interesting way to juxtapose Twitter and Facebook

Andy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:43:26 +0000

sudo apt-get install gwibber

It basically gives a running feed of status updates on both Twitter and Facebook. Good for when (like me) you have almost totally different people on each one.

Using Ubiquity as a Twitter client

Andy — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:00:53 +0000

I’ve been experimenting with Mozilla’s new (very much still in development) Ubiquity tool, which does a lot of what Quicksilver and Gnome-do can do, but is also expandable to an almost unlimited degree.

I was going to write a tutorial on how to use Ubiquity to post to Twitter, but it’s really as simple as starting Ubiquity and typing one line as seen below:

twitter Type your status here

Hit enter, and your post appears on Twitter. It’s really that simple.