Jesse Newland

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

1. Download Tweet.scpt
2. Move Tweet.scpt to ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions
3. Restart Quicksilver (Cmd Ctrl Q)
4. Setup a Trigger – I use Cmd Opt Ctrl T :
   
   

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.