> a couple of years ago I read in mind performance hacks the > idea about creating an "exo-self". > > Currently I use twitter to store ideas I come up with that > are important for my development. Over time I forget these > ideas. I though it would be good to have twitter randomly > text message one of my posts back to me to help imprint these ideas. > > I wish I knew how to do this...
It shouldn't be too hard at all. Twitter messages are all available via http. So you could write a perl or python script that does the following: 1) gets the list of messages in your store from http://twitter.com/YourTwitterName or http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/TwitterNumericId.rss. The latter may be easier programatically because it comes across in an easily parsible XML format. 2) Randomly selects a message 3) Sends you a message. I see perl libraries for MSN & Yahoo messengers, so this shouldn't be too hard a problem. Anyway, cron this up on a net-connected unix box to run once an hour or day or week or whatever you want as a frequency, and it's all done. Sounds like an interesting project that shouldn't take more than an afternoon to get running. Ping me if you need help. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
