I've started using Twitter. There, I said it. I actually signed up for twitter to follow a few 9fans, which seems sort of weirdly ironic to me. Now with a bunch of GSoC related news flying around on it, I've actually started using it (lightly), much to my surprise (and occasional dismay). Going to the web site to poll for updates is irritating, but there's enough other tools out there that finding something that presents a more reasonable usage actually isn't too hard. I wanted something on Plan 9 that worked simply.
Testing has been cursory only, but /n/sources/contrib/anothy/rc/bin/tweet seems to work. Usage is pretty much as you'd expect, "tweet some message here" or "fortune | tweet" will do pretty much what you expect. It's a pretty dead simple wrapper around hget. I even got to give up on authentication, since hget will ask factotum. Side note: as I said, this uses hget. I first tried doing it with webfs, but had problems with the user:p...@domain syntax. Is anyone using that with webfs? Anthony (sigh: @anothy)
