Twitter Status Updates!
March 10, 2008

I finally got off my ass and implemented a Twitter status updater here on my page to the right over there. Notice that I didn't take the lazy way out, and it's actually included here on my blog. I wrote up a quick Ruby script that interfaces with the Twitter API in order to get my latest request. It uses SSL, so everything's encrypted and I don't have to worry too much. Additionally, I decided to actually implement it using Ajax instead of directly embedding it in my page. Why? I'm not sure that I want Google knowing about *everything* that I'm doing on the Intarwebs.

Anyway, you can download my script right here if you're interested. Just run it as a cron job outputting to a text file, then you can use Ajax to embed it or some sort of server-side processing to include it. You can look at this page's code if you're interested in how to do it with Prototype.

Ya, I did rip off the Twitterriffic icon. Twitter itself doesn't provide any decent graphics. :(