Twitterbox - a Twitter Client for Second Life

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What is a Twitterbox?

As it says above, Twitterbox is an object which enables one to post to and receive updates from Twitter, when inside Second Life. If you are not familiar with either of those I might suggest, sir or madam, that you click the previous links to further educate yourself.

What would one use it for? All sorts of random chatterings and such, but I myself find it particularly useful for marking the positions of interesting things that I find on the Grid, due to its particularly easy method of marking a SLURL for one's current location. Explorers may find this handy - I might mention here the Not Possible IRL group as an example.

How to get a Twitterbox

The latest version as of Wednesday 18 April is 0.4. Twitterboxes can be obtained from:

You may find the scripts themselves, including the PHP intermediary thing, in the code section.

The Twitterbox is free to use, examine and distribute, though I would warn you to delete your email address and password from the script before giving a copy to someone else.

Please note that versions of the Twitterbox before the current one may now not be properly compatible with Twitter, which is a rapidly-evolving jellyfish. I am not planning to go through all of my previous code and fix everything, so use these old versions at your own risk.

How to use a Twitterbox

Please do read the full instruction page....

Suggestions and Further Reading

If you have any suggestions for possible enhancements, or comments generally, please go to the following entry:

All of my Journal entries about Twitter can be found by looking for the Twitter category.

For those interested in developing their own Twitter toys and applications, I recommend the Twitter Development Talk Google Group, which also contains API documentation.

Scripts and Code

...can be found here.

Miscellaneous Things

All code is by Ordinal Malaprop.

My Twittername is ordinal, in case you are ever interested in seeing even more of my meaningless meanderings.

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