It’s been well-over a year since I hacked the the first few lines of code for Trowel, the open source, Perl solution to your Twitter and Growl needs.
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Displaying Twitter messages using Growl
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009How To: Growl and Twitter
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008THIS POST HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY Twitter + Growl = Trowel v1.0
OK, so I’m new to Twitter. I didn’t (don’t) get it. Who wants to know what I’m doing? Well as I keep telling myself thats not the point. The point is to spread information, I had a lot of fun on Election night tweeting away about the coverage and calling states (I was surprisingly accurate).
The one thing that did annoy me was it added another website to check – not just a lunch but a refresh every 5 minutes. Something had to be done. (more…)