The purpose of this program is to open links posted by selected accounts
instantly after they are posted on Twitter. This is ahead of text message notifications, Twitter web client updates, etc. This will not help with RSVP releases. Only NDC releases.
This is for
Mac OS X 10.4 or newer only! It is a public alpha. It will deactivate itself in a few days, at which point it will no longer work.
I'm going to assume you are using Safari. Step 2 might be slightly different if you aren't.
- Download here: http://bit.ly/USzpyZ
- Safari will automatically extract into the folder ~/Downloads/twinkle-v03a/ when the download is complete. Go to the folder.
- VERY IMPORTANT! Open twinkle_config.txt
- VERY IMPORTANT! Edit in your own username and password *
- VERY IMPORTANT! Add your twitter handle to the follow list(without the @, just like the others)
- VERY IMPORTANT! Save and close twinkle_config.txt
- Double-click twinkle in the folder to launch the program. At this point, the program will initialize and a bunch of tweets related to Nike will scroll by.
- Tweet a link from your account. If you configured everything correctly, you will see it highlighted by stars in the stream and it will simultaneously open in your browser **
Lots of tweets will show up about Nike, but only tweets containing links from the followed accounts will open in browser.
* Use a throwaway account if you are worried about me stealing it or something.
** It will open faster if your default browser is already open.
For support, please send me a PM with your issue and your email address.
Screenshot:
Please post feedback in this thread. I won't continue to release software if you don't.