Oh this was totally the highlight of my day.
First, you should all get twitter accounts. Mine is http://twitter.com/hoist2k
Next you should all get Quicksilver (this is not optional and I really can’t believe you don’t use it)
(Oh and I assume you all use OS X)
Copy and paste the following code into ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Scripts/twitterStatus.scpt (you might have to create the dir)
—- SNIP START CODE —-
using terms from application “Quicksilver”on process text tweet
tell application “Keychain Scripting”
set twitter_key to first Internet key of current keychain whose server is “twitter.com”
set twitter_login to quoted form of (account of twitter_key & “:” & password of twitter_key)
end tell
set twitter_status to quoted form of (“status=” & tweet)
set results to do shell script “curl –user ” & twitter_login & ” –data-binary ” &
twitter_status & ” http://twitter.com statuses/update.json”
— display dialog results
tell application “iChat” to set status message to tweet
return nothing
end process text
end using terms from
—–SNIP END CODE ——
Next, open Keychain and add an entry for a new internet site: http://twitter.com. Make the username and password your twitter info (login is email).
You may have to edit Quicksilver prefs to look in that newly created folder and restart it. YMMV. Restarting quicksilver is really hard because when it’s off, you can’t use it to launch itself 🙂 )
Finally, you can “twit” or whatever your keystroke is, followed by tab-tab (the action should be “process text”) and type your text. Coolio!
PS I can’t take credit for the site (see trackback URL), but that site has some typos (incorrect fonts in the script and a file named .scrpt and not .scpt, but it won’t accept my useful suggestions in the comments due to buggy captchas 😦
WordPress is buggy as all hell. Sorry about that. Be sure to check your line endings when you paste the script. The editor fux0red everything and 15 mins on a post is my current limit. –Ben
Hi! Looks like you were on to something here. If you get another 15min, I’d love it id you could revisit this post. 🙂 Darn wordpress!