Since I recently got on this whole social bandwagon thing (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Last.fm) I found that I needed some way to keep my Twitter status and IM status synced.
I originally found how easy it is to update my twitter status with this script. I ended up making lots of modifications to it in order to tell me if the tweet failed or succeeded as well as updating Kopete's status through DCOP.
When I saw someone else update the script, I figured I should post my own, so here it is:
#!/bin/bash
tweet=`kdialog --inputbox 'What are you doing?'`
if [ "$tweet" != "" ]; then
curl -u email:password \
-s -F status="$tweet" \
--url http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
kdialog --error "tweet failed"
else
kdialog --passivepopup tweeted 4 &
# set IM status
dcop kopete &> /dev/null
if [ "$?" == "0" ]; then
dcop kopete default setAway "$tweet" false
fi
fi
fi
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