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February 27th, 2008 (worufu)

In recent weeks one question formed in my head: How to share all the URLs I discover every day? In search for the easiest solution I decided to setup a twitter account which has the big advantage of multiple, already available, forms of input. There are small applications for mobile devices, the traditional web interface and also a nice firefox plugin which I am using mostly as I just have to hit one button while browsing the web to post URLs to my twitter account.

After having found my favourite webservice for collecting data all that was left to integrate it into this website was a php script which is run by cron to collect and save the most recent twitter entries into the local database periodically and another short php script which shows the twitter posts from the local database.

I like the result very much and this is just the beginning. Many custom extensions to the script are easy to realize (like custom syntax for sorting twitter postings into categories, etc.). If anybody is interested in the sourcecode of the PHP scripts please drop me a short note or comment this post and I’ll upload and publish the code under GPL.

Oh… I almost forgot to show you the final result. You have to visit the

» history link

in the main navigation.



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