Getting geeky with Twitterrific and AppleScript

31.01.2009

There are plenty of other hidden preferences for Twitterrific, all completely documented in the program's accompanying Read Me file. You read it all the way to the bottom, didn't you? Nope--didn't think so. But let me tell you, you haven't lived until you've turned on sonicTwooshTechnology.

Scripting your tweets

Want to annoy people with Tweets sent out automatically via an AppleScript? You can do it! After all, I have. I wrote a script that allowed me to boast to people in cold-weather climes (or, in the summer, hot-weather climes) about the wonderful weather we have here in the San Francisco area. Here's the basic version of the script:

tell application "Twitterrific"

post update "I am a stupid, scripted tweet."