If you’re a regular in the CITRT IRC Channel and also a Twitterer (or is that a Tweeter?), you’re gonna love what Brutus can do for you. Make sure your IRC nick is registered and that you’ve auth’d yourself with NickServ before you attempt this.
- Open a private message (PM) with BrutusBot
- Type this: $twitter identify yourtwitteruser yourtwitterpassword
- You should get a reply from BrutusBot: “you’re all setup!”
- Go back to #citrt (or continue using the PM session) and type: $twitter update Hey wantmoore rocks!
- BrutusBot will reply: yournick: status updated
If you get an error after attempting to update your status, either you mis-typed your password during “$twitter identify” or maybe Twitter is down. Either scenario is equally likely if you ask me.
Enjoy!
Awesome! Now to see how many times we can repeat the same tweet in #citrt in different ways…update through Brutus and in the next couple of minutes, it ni-twit spits it back out
I wonder…maybe Matt Bradshaw would be willing to modify ni-twit to monitor the chat for Brutus Twitter update commands, and ignore the same updates when it comes back to it through the API shortly thereafter? Frankly I don’t find ni-twit that annoying, kind of like it in fact, and anyone who thinks it is annoying can Ignore it in most clients. However, de-duplication might be a nice goal!
Excellent write-up by the way, the instructions were very easy to follow!
Is Brutus still operational? Do not see “him” in #citrt.
Brutus has been replaced by natebot. In theory, you should be able to do the exact same thing with natebot, but I haven’t tested it.