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Post Pidgin and Twitter status from command line


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I often want to post the same status message in Pidgin and Twitter. I wrote  simple bash script to accomplish this.

One can download the script from here: http://www.spsneo.com/scripts/poststatus.tar.gz

How to use it -

1) Change the permission of the file to make it executable: chmod +x poststatus

2) Then execute the file with the status message as the argument: ./poststatus "Status Message goes here in quotes"

3) The script will first post the status message in your pidgin and will then ask whether you want to post it on twitter.  If you say yes, the script asks you for your twitter username and password.

Start using the script and send me feedback to improve it.

I can share and save my status messages !


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I love showing off my status messages of gtalk. I often set witty messages, latest (probably unheard) news, my latest blog links in my status. Many a times I wish to log those messages to make a life stream. Wouldn’t it be great if I could someday check, what was my status on my last birthday ! Or may be, I would love to remember those moments when I used to impress my girlfriend by weird status messages. Status messages are no more just for “available” , “busy” and “idle”. Its like microblogging now.

Thanks to http://gtalkbots.com . Now I can save all my status messages and even share it to the world. So now I can have my life stream saved without any pain of logging in to the website. I simply had to add bots@gtalkbots.com to my buddy list and register once in the website. Simple !

This bot is intelligent as well. I can save any notes link etc just by messaging “<notes> Anything I want to save.”

This site is even providing widgets for my blog. Check out the two widgets in the side panel of this page. There are two gtalkbots.com widgets on my blog. One of them shows my last 10 status messages and the other one displays the last 10 shared status message of the world.

I can even ‘track’ my friends’ status messages. Isnt all these great ??

Check out my gtalkbots page: http://gtalkbots.com/spsneo

Hope you will also love this service and give a try at least.