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nospam@example.com (WebThingy) — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:01:00 -0700

Visit my page here: http://twitter.com/icfti

Kipdola Twitter Sync posts Twitter status updates on Facebook Fan Page Wall

nospam@example.com (WebThingy) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:22:02 -0700

Kipdola Twitter Sync (Kipdosync) is a beta Facebook app that works well and does what many have been searching for. It takes your status updates on Twitter and posts them to your Facebook Fan Page Wall! And no, you do NOT have to add #fb like other apps require. If that weren't enough, you can convert Twitter tags (@username) to Facebook tags, the ability to use inclusion & exclusion keyword and tweet-chaining!

To add it to your Fan Page click here, click the Add To Page link, choose your Fan Page (not your regular profile), then in your applications edit the settings to put in your Twitter username, and make sure you give the app permissions otherwise it won't work. Done!

Even easier command line Twitter!

nospam@example.com (WebThingy) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:23:36 -0700

Recently I posted how to update your Twitter status via the command line in Linux, but now there is an even easier way!

In Ubuntu/Debian based distros, install curl in the terminal with the command:

sudo apt-get install curl

(for other distros find curl in your package manager and install it)

Then create a file, name it twitter (with no extension, no .txt or anything, just name it: twitter) and save it to your Desktop.

Paste the line below into it, modify the username and password strings to reflect your info:

curl --basic --user "username:password" --data-ascii "status=`echo $@|tr ' ' '+'`" "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json"

Now using your root file manager (open terminal and enter: gksu nautilus) move the file into /usr/bin right click it, set permission to allow it to execute, save, done.

Now you can open the terminal and type in: twitter I am tweeting via the command line in Linux

Enter it, and you'll see a bunch of garble in the terminal, but look at your Twitter page, your message is there!

This makes it muuuuuuch easier to command line Twitter update!

Epic Fail Whale

nospam@example.com (WebThingy) — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:47:02 -0700

I'm sure by now you either noticed or heard about the Denial Of Service attack on Twitter. Well, since the fail whale wasn't even working I think Twitter should post the...

In case you missed what happened, here's an article that describes it well.

Update Twitter Status From The Command Line

nospam@example.com (WebThingy) — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:34:25 -0700

This example is specifically for Debian based distros (Debian, Ubuntu, gNewSense, etc.), however, if you install or already have curl installed on your distro, then the Twitter update command below (second one down) will work for you too.

Ok ready? Here goes...

Open a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and enter:

sudo apt-get install curl

Verify you want to install.

Then enter in:

curl -u user:pass -d status="put update in here, only commas and periods in here" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

Note Of course in the command, replace user with your Twitter username, and replace pass with your Twitter password. In the quotes, put your status update. Do no use ! ? : ; or "" within those quotes in the command or it won't work.

Once you have curl installed, to make future updates you can just hit Alt F2 on the keyboard and check Run In Terminal and enter the command into the Run Application command line.

Useful? Meh. Interesting, Yes!