Comments on: Schedule Twitter Posts

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:04:46 +0000

Wow, this is a great tutorial and very easy to follow. Can’t wait to try it out

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:30:47 +0000

the single use of the tweetsfile.bat works, but not this AT command … thoughts? Thank you.
at 8:00 /every:M,T,W,Th,F,S,Su cmd / c:\curl\tweetsfile.bat

By: lear

lear — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:20:16 +0000

hi, thanks, this is awesome! may I ask you to post a complete script for osx that allows me scheduling of tweets read from text file (each tweet in a single line of multiple lines text file)? I am pretty lame I am afraid and if i would try to do it myself will do lots of errors…for sure! once again, thank you. very nice tutorial and you seem to have an awesome way of explaining things!

By: Helen Dangote

Helen Dangote — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:36:28 +0000

Hi again, I got it running on my Ubuntu Linux without any problem.
Thanks for the nice script.

By: MeLikeGoodMusic

MeLikeGoodMusic — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:22:39 +0000

Fantastic! The script would be very useful for my twitter usage. Now, what are the chances of doing a Mac version?

By: Helen Dangote

Helen Dangote — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:02:30 +0000

Thanks for this awesome tutorial on how to automate Tweets on Windows. Although I don’t use Windows, I think it won’t take much to get it running on Linux. I just checked and my distro has curl installed, so it should work right away.

I will post here once I’ve got it running.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:07:58 +0000

I’m running Vista as an administrator. When I run the “at” command line, I get “Access is denied”. It is not possible to set a batch file to run as administrator but perhaps a shortcut to the batch file might do it.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:25:03 +0000

For some reason the

at 8:00 /every:M,T,W,Th,F,S,Su cmd / c:\curl\twitter.bat

wasn’t running. I couldn’t figure it out so I ended up scheduling the task via the task scheduler and everything seems to be in working order now. Again, thanks SO much for the help!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:23:23 +0000

Joe, THANKS! Can’t wait to give this a try. Will let you know how it goes.

By: Joe Lennon

Joe Lennon — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:22:35 +0000

Just a quick note about the previous comment - this script deletes EVERY line in the tweet.txt file where it encounters the contents of the line it just tweeted. So if you have a line like the following

You can expect every line in your file that contains the letter a to be deleted as soon as the above line gets tweeted. The line

TYPE c:\curl\tweet.txt | FIND /v "%STATUS%" > c:\curl\tweet.tmp

basically says - read the file tweet.txt and output every line that DOES NOT contain the contents of the STATUS variable to the file tweet.tmp. The next line copies the contents of tweet.tmp to tweet.txt, and then we delete the tweet.tmp file. I hope this explains a bit better what exactly this script is doing. Like I said, if you have any specific questions, be sure to ask!