twittering fortune cookies

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Friday, March 16. 2007

twittering fortune cookies

By using the provided twitter API it is easily possible to automate or simplify your important status updates. For instance, consider your favorite fortune message of the day to show an astonishing resemlance to your twitter status. The following bits of code take over the job of submitting this message, leaving even more leisure time for your enjoyment, while pretending to be actually involved in yet another web2.0 application.


#!/bin/sh
# the next line restarts using tclsh \
"$0" "$@""Basic [base64::encode $username:$password]""status" $msg]
        geturl_auth "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json""fortune"]

send_twitter "<username>" "<password>" $msg
## note: <username> and <password> are to be substituted appropriately.
 
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