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Articles Tagged "away-message":
Twitter & Adium Now Best Friends ¬
2007-05-04
[Note: Twitter stopped supporting IM connections, including Jabber, long ago so this post is no longer relevant. That said, it looks like Adium 1.4 will include Twitter support.]
Honestly, I had taken a little time off from worrying about my Twitter & Adium integration for a while there, since the Twitter IM service was cat-napping anyway, but I’m back into the full swing of it again. Since my previous post regarding Twitter and Adium working together using the TwitterAdium plug-in still gets so many hits, I figured I had better post an update so that I don’t confuse anybody since the landscape has changed a little bit. Fortunately, everything is a lot sunnier now in TwitterAdium land.
First, TwitterAdium is up to version 1.1 and has fixed many of the timeout issues I had previously experienced. It should now be much friendlier to Twitter’s servers, so that’s a plus for everyone. You can also add twitteradium as a Twitter friend to receive notifications of future updates.
Second, and most importantly, the Twitter API was updated a while ago (I didn’t pay attention as to exactly when) and so you’ll now have to modify your ~/.twitter file (as noted here) for the new format, if you haven’t already:
username: XXXX
email: bla@bla.com
password: secret
So, if you had previously created a ~/.twitter file and it contained a line starting with “userid” then you’ll need to replace it with “username” instead. So, the “username” line now actually refers to your username (so “morgant”, in my case) and no longer your rarely-seen-these-days ID number (which is “39063”, in my case).
Once you update your ~/.twitter file, then Twitter and Adium will be super best friends! Seriously though, this has been working very well for me lately and I’m glad I went this route (as opposed to, say, trying to get my Adium status messages posted to Twitter or not doing it at all).
Once they re-enable the ability to follow your friends with AIM, I’ll be all set. In the meantime I’ve had to switch to one of my Jabber accounts.
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One added tidbit that I’m not sure how many people understand (noted here), but which I frequently get asked about by my friends, is that the maximum character limit for AIM “available” messages is 42. So, since Twitter allows 140 characters, all your long messages will get cut off. However, AIM does not impose this restriction on “away” messages, so your Twitter message will be displayed in full as your away status and your auto-reply.
Also, I believe that AIM “available” messages are only displayed on the Mac anyway, so only your Mac1 friends will complain that your available status is cut off.
Update: TwitterAdium is now at version 1.2, as of May 7th, 2007.
1 It seems that my number of Mac friends is increasing quite a bit faster these days, and I’ve been a Mac user and evangelist for years. They all seem to be happier with the transition and the life than every before, which is a very good thing.
Twitter as my global status message ¬
2006-12-12
When John Gruber mentioned Twitter a couple weeks ago, saying, ”[his] spidey sense says Twitter is going to be one of those ‘everyone’s using it’ big deals pretty soon,” I went straight over to twitter.com to see what it was all about.
When I got there I was pretty under-whelmed with the concept of the site/service (all it does is ask, “What are you doing?”) and left pretty quickly. It’s like a blog where all you post is a 143 character quick message about what you’re doing. Big deal. So I browsed on.
About 30 minutes later it suddenly hit me. What if I used Twitter as a central location to update a personal status/away-message for my web site, Adium (and so all my AIM, Jabber, and Yahoo! Messenger accounts), possibly finger, as well as whatever service I start using next. That’s where Twitter’s ability to post via web, AIM/Jabber, or cell phone suddenly appeared to be complete genius to me.
I’ve never cared for the SMS messaging functionality for reminders in Google Calendar or other services and I sure don’t want to use my cell phone to post weblog entries like some people do, but how many times have I gotten back to my computer to find numerous IMs from people that hadn’t caught on that I was away or didn’t realize I was busy with some other project? Obviously too many to count on all my digits (including toes). So, integrating a centralized status message with as many services as possible would be very beneficial to me.
I quickly happened across the TwitterAdium Xtra for Adium1, found the API fairly easy to work with via JavaScript, a Textpattern plug-in, and many other cool things.
What I’m finding out about the latest “Web 2.0” sites/services is that their true power is not so much in their tagging (although very useful) or their community aspects (which I tend to care little about), but in that many of them publish APIs and embrace others using them as building blocks. “Web 2.0”—or are we up to 2.5 yet?—is very much like working on a unix command line: others have created many, many useful tools and all you have to do is pipe their output to others or occasionally write a script to glue them all together.
1 Unfortunately, TwitterAdium currently requires the latest beta and I’m using the stable release, so I’ll have to actually upgrade or wait it out.
