18 Apr
Posted by Harper as Technology at 02:20 PM
Tags: broox, derek, google-code, laim, plugin, status, Technology, twitter
So I have been using twitter for a minute. I really enjoy it. I got all my friends on it and quite a number of my family using it. Its fun. I love getting updates and what not. However, the one thing I wish I could do with twitter is set the status of my various IM clients by sending a “tweet” to twitter. It would be awesome. You could then have your AIM status or Gtalk status show your latest twitter. Or better yet, you could have a semblance of presence with based on twitter pushed to your various statuses.
My buddy Derek and I whipped up a LAIM plugin to do this. But it is so far only for AIM and I don’t use LAIM. heh. But it worked for a bit. Ultimately what I want is a gaim plugin that will set my statuses for each account to my twitter status. Or even a standalone app. Something simple and fast.
The outcome would be the ability to use your twitter status to participate a little bit in the presence part of being online. How many of us have workstations that sit online all night with us gone. It would be neat to hover over one of your buddies names and see what they are up to now, not 5 hours ago.
So lets build this!
Check out our Google code page for our LAIM plugin we built. It should work, although Derek reported that it was a bit flaky. We plan to release more code for other clients. So chip in!
[tags]google code, twitter, derek, broox, laim, plugin, status[/tags]
5 Responses
mike
April 18th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
1Don’t you mean “the gaim plugin I wish existed”? Because I use Adium on my laptop (OSX client, supports every damn protocol under the sun, uses the same library as gaim) and there are a few scripts to do exactly what you said.
matt
April 19th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
2I use irssi+bitlbee for all my IM. I think it’d be pretty easy to write this, either (a) as an IRC bot or (b) as a perl script for irssi, to do this. One advantage of doing it this way is that irssi+bitlbee run 24/7 in screen on my server, so it would work all the time. The only problem is that I’m not totally sure how well bitlbee supports status for all the IM protocols. I think it’s pretty decent, though…
Harper
April 20th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
3interesting. i have written a couple irc bots for twitter (always running them in screen). i have thought of this - i just want to integrate directly into the clients i use most often. i will look into bitlbee.
thanks
Davor
April 22nd, 2007 at 1:01 pm
4If you use a free application for twitting “Twiteriffic” by Icon Factory, it’s enough to check the option “Update chat status when posting a new tweet” I’ve tried it and it works well with iChat and Skype.
http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific/
Guy Rintoul
May 9th, 2007 at 9:18 am
5Hey,
I totally want this too… there is already a program which updates your MSN/Windows Live Messenger status but it doesn’t update any other clients yet:
http://kunal.kundaje.net/twessenger/
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