Twitter

Ah I've gone a little "twitter" nuts of late, I mean it's kind of addictive but it's also been a huge benefit so far I can passively chat with others and get input, feedback and other great things that normally I would have to aggressively ping each person I know - now though with  Twitter I can simply write and for those who are linked to me wait for one to answer.

 

In fact just today Cote and Annez started talking about starting their day,

annez @cote: twitters first? Then email, comments, RSS feeds, ... that's as far as I get some days. So I've started reading RSS feeds after doing real work. about 5 hours ago from web

cote New RFP for WWD: what should the prioritization of WW tasks be? Respond to emails, blog comments, read blogs, write blogs, IM, etc. about 6 hours ago from web

So of course I started giving it some thought and came up with,

ccmehil Twitter, Gmail, RSS, SAP Mail, SAP Forums, SAP Wiki, SAP Blogs that's my start of day and usually everything opens at once then I bounce between about 5 hours ago from web

Which of course really got me thinking of ways of making my day a bit more efficient and not miss anything.

I decided to go on the hunt though and see what I could find around the twitter application and was quite amazed to find A LOT! First thing I found was the "Twitter Fan Wiki" which is loaded with stuff, links and everything under the sun.

Another little snippet I found there was "Twitteroo",

• Update your Twitter status from your Desktop
• Twitter notifications
• View your Friends timeline or the Public timeline
• Clickable links from status messages
• Refreshes automatically or manually
• Set refresh time and notification transparency
• Support for international characters in status messages
• Browse to Twitter user page or personal websites
• Customize Twitteroo font size
• Set transparency for main Twitteroo window and notifications
• Optional sound notification when new tweets arrive
• Bite-sized cookies made from real Twitter

Surprisingly there was not a whole lot for Windows, MAC though was just off the wall!

For me though the best was this one, "Twitter Status", now that I've just got to give a try the problem of course is finding the time even the little time to try out this simple little code snippet.

<?php

$email = $_GET['email'];
$password = $_GET['password'];
$status = urlencode( $_GET['status'] );

$url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?status=$status";

$session = curl_init();
curl_setopt ( $session, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
curl_setopt ( $session, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC );
curl_setopt ( $session, CURLOPT_HEADER, false );
curl_setopt ( $session, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $email . ":" . $password );
curl_setopt ( $session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );
$result = curl_exec ( $session );
curl_close( $session );

echo( $result );

?>

Imagine, for those like me who work in a web environment most of the day having a little snippet like this added into that environment allowing you to update your tasks, messages, or whatever it is you are doing - developers working on code having the option to hit a link and send a ping to Twitter with a link to what they just published or did.

Imagine a sales team or product team each having a Twitter account, with a simple setting made

Thus enabling them to quietly in the background communicate with each other and only each other without the annoying IM window popping up, without their email inbox constantly beeping and filling up.

Yes I'm liking Twitter very much these days... 

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