Hello ,

I was wondering if there is a PAL script that will make SAM post
a new message on Twitter , as soon as a new track is played ?

I have a web-blog with a Twitter widget , and would like a simple
<artist> - <title> message , wich gets updated as soon as a new track
or show is played.
But I have no clue is this can be done , and if so....how ?

None that I'm aware of. I know this has been played w/ using MSN Live Messenger, but thats all I've heard of.

What is the protocol for posting to Twitter?

Pfew...if I only knew lol

You can send messeges to Twitter using their website ,
but there are also quite a few third party thingies out there wich you
can use without having to go to the website.

You'd most likely have to do some disection on one of those "thingies" to see how it works first.

Since this is the first and only thread on Twitter you are blazing new ground.

....thats one small step for Twitter.....

Please post manual steps to either post to Twitter directly or using a third party tool.
Without knowing the how we cannot determine the if.

This might help with achieving this. It looks like it just send an HTTP request.

http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation

SomaFM is already doing this to keep an archive of their playlists:

http://twitter.com/xmasinfrisko

Pretty nice! I would be interested in implementing this if one could find a way to do this through SAM.

PHP works fine , curl needed!!

i can't post the code here so please check :

http://www.piratenhits.com/twittercode.txt

The result can be found at : http://twitter.com/piratenhits
regards,

Piratenhits Internetradio
http://www.piratenhits.com

Can you explain how you did that?

You can use the method described here, which I found with a google search:

http://morethanseven.net/2007/01/20/pos ... using-php/

I just registered at Twitter an hour ago and used the code at the URL above to update Twitter with my song data. It works, as you can see here:

http://twitter.com/yinternetradio

When I tinkered about with Twitter (as described in my previous post) it was just out of curiosity. I'd never seen or heard of Twitter before. Now that I have my song info "tweeting", I can see one use for it that might appeal to some of you....

If you have a MySpace page for your station, you can use Twitter to display your "now playing" text on your MySpace profile.

In the MySpace apps, there are a few apps that will grab your tweeter text and display it on your MySpace profile. I installed the "MiniTweet" app for MySpace, and you can see it on my profile, just above the "Friends" section:

http://www.myspace.com/yourinternetradio

Before I began tweeting, I was already displaying my "now playing" at MySpace by writing the text to .png images. I could stop doing that now and rely on MiniTweet alone, but I'm not sure that I'll do that.

Anyway.... using MiniTweet at MySpace is a fairly easy way to get your "now playing" stuff displayed at MySpace.

The first step is to get your data displayed at Twitter, using the method linked in my last post or using any other method that works.

Once your "now playing" stuff is appearing correctly on your Twitter page, you do the final step: Install a MySpace app that will display your tweets. That is quick and simple to do.

Just thought I'd bring that up, in case anybody is interested. Maybe this is old news and I'm the last to know about it. Wouldn't be the first time.

Hi HTTP

Can you post your final script so we can see how you made the basic script work with SAM? Some of us are still a little slow when it comes to scripting and would appreciate the help if you can offer it.

thanks.

PS. great thinking, with the MySpace addition.

Hello,

I am new to this, can someone tell me where to load the php script that allows sam to update on Twitter? Your assistance is very much appreciated.

DJ Deli