Replacing TwitterIM with my own bot.
TwitterIM: TwitterIM is under maintenance at the moment. Please check back later.
Twitter‘s AIM bot, TwitterIM, has been “under maintenance” for as long as I can remember. The last time it worked for me was in January 2008, and I have been “checking back later” periodically since. Personally, I do not have high hopes for it working any time soon. I decided to just take advantage of Twitter and AIM’s APIs and write my own bot to update my twitter through AIM.
I wrote this in about 10 minutes, so its a really simple program. Once it connects to the AIM server, it waits for messages from me, ignoring all other messages. A message from me is immediately posted to Twitter through curl. In this implementation, there is no check for a successful post, though that would not be particularly difficult to implement.
The source code is available here. You need Perl, the Net::OSCAR module, and AIM and Twitter accounts, naturally. Just fill in your credentials at the top of program and run it with Perl.
May 19th, 2011 at 8:56 am
blah ! i have my first twitter account here : http://twitter.com/yellowcake and I’m really sure that it is mine (because of the tweets and some sort of stuffs), but I don’t remember the email or password I’m using for that account! I just remember that I’ve set it up with Twitter’s AIM bot, that is.. TwitterIM! BUT, it always says, “TwitterIM is under maintenance at the moment. Please check back later.” Lol, just as what you said earlier.
Dammit Twitter! You can just remove the feature and officially announce it. You made false hope for me
Oops, sorry for over share