I have been very busy, what with my professorial duties, and making the Pet Labour Troll, and building my new house. But today I can at least spend a little time trying to finish coding this blog. To which end, I have just added some scripting that posts every new entry to my Twitter feed. If it works (and it ought to work), there will be a brand new status update as soon as I submit this entry, that says, “blogged on seangleeson.com: ‘And now, my blog posts to Twitter’” (because that is the title of this entry) along with a shortened URL.
Of course, there are myriad services and plugins already extant that do pretty much exactly the same thing. But just as with my Facebook app, the hangup there is the “pretty much” part. None of them does exactly what I wanted, with the wording I wanted, or my desired algorithm for shortening the text if it exceeds 140 characters. This one is just what I wanted. (Phoebe too, I think.) And using my own script means I can use my own URL shortener as well.
So now, all y’all who follow my Twitter feed (I believe there were five of you, last I checked) never need to miss a blog post!
11:45 PM
You are so wonderful.
12:42 AM
Hey darlin, me again. Tell your students they have to make this for the next quiz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Xa4bHcJu8
8:08 AM
Great way to expand to reach a new audience. Go Twitter!
I hope all goes well for you :)
5:51 PM
I am happy that you are on twitter but all of your friends from Mochiads have been wondering how you and your game “Wichita Faro” have been doing. Macadamia found your forum post made in Mar 28 2007 “My first penny!” and we all have been asking how many penny’s have you made so far.
https://www.mochimedia.com/community/forum/topic/my-first-penny.