December 3rd, 2008

Twitter: The drinking game

Filed under: daily — saul @ 1:45 AM

I spend some time on twitter, my wife spends time on twitter, even my cat spends time on twitter. It’s highly entertaining, and a nice diversion a few times a day - but it’s impossible to catch a buzz with friends while tweeting from your desk - until now, I give you..

Twitter the drinking game.

Like all good games the rules are simple.
Get yourself a pitcher/carafe/jug/teapot/sixpack/bottle of your favorite beverage.

RULES:

Prepare to take ONE sip/shot anytime ANYONE TWEETS:

  • A link to facebook, or mentions a facebook group
  • A picture from TwitPic
  • A reference to public transportation or traffic
  • A reply to more than 3 people in a single tweet

And you need to FINISH the contents of your glass/cup when

  • Jason Calacanis’s tweet DOESN’T mention Mahalo
  • Justine’s tweet mentions food or a uses the acronym OMG
  • John Gruber’s tweet ISN’T dripping in sarcasm
  • A tweet has the hashtag #drinkup
  • Every Twoosh (twitter needs to visually identify the oh-so-special Twoosh)
  • Every Fail Whale

Of course these rules are a work in progress - so they may change, please drink responsibly - try not exceed 140 drinks in a day.

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October 16th, 2007

The Raw Power Of Launchbar + Shell

Filed under: geek,mac — saul @ 9:41 AM

So I’ve been twitting for a short time, Like so many people I downloaded ‘Twittererific’ and have been happily twitting away - it’s a solid sexy little app, and honestly I would expect nothing less from the guys at iconfactory, they rock, and rock hard. Given my recent love affair with the shell, I realized last night that I could easily leverage Launchbar to be my twitting tool of choice; twitters API is simple and concise.

curl --basic --user "USERNAME:PASSWORD" --data-ascii ¬
"status=YOUR DESIRED TWIT" " ¬
http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json"

So to tie that to Launchbar we simply add the argument passed (your typed status) from launchbar into the script, save it in ‘\bin’ CHMOD it executable, and bind it to a search template

curl --basic --user "USERNAME:PASSWORD" --data-ascii ¬
"status=$1" "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json"

That’s all it really takes to post, how simple is that?, of course to get your friends status it’ll take a bit more, I’m thinking ‘geektool’ is the right tool for that job, but that’s a different post (hopefully tomorrow).

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